Print Tulid 9 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, book covers, packaging, headlines, brand marks, folkloric, playful, storybook, craft, rustic, handmade feel, decorative impact, warmth, quirk, chiseled, flared, wedge serif, organic, irregular.
A compact, hand-rendered display face with chunky strokes and lightly flared, wedge-like terminals that suggest a carved or brush-cut tool. The outlines are smooth but intentionally uneven, with subtle asymmetries and small shifts in stroke weight that keep the rhythm lively. Counters are relatively tight and the lowercase is notably compact, giving text a dense, vertical presence. Curves tend toward rounded bowls with flattened joins, while diagonals (notably in V/W/X/Y) feel slightly angular and energetic.
Best suited to display settings where its handcrafted irregularity can be a feature: posters, book and album covers, labels and packaging, café or market signage, and personality-forward branding. It can work for short passages or pull quotes at comfortable sizes, but its compact counters and dense color make it most effective for headings and highlighted text.
The overall tone is informal and characterful, with a storybook, folkloric warmth. Its hand-cut feel reads as friendly and craft-driven rather than polished or corporate, adding personality and a hint of rustic charm to short phrases and titles.
This design appears intended to mimic informal hand-lettered print with a carved, wedge-terminal finish, balancing legibility with a deliberately quirky, artisanal texture. The goal seems to be adding warmth and narrative character to typography without resorting to fully connected script forms.
Capitals carry a strong decorative presence, with several letters showing distinctive wedge terminals and slightly quirky proportions that enhance recognizability. Numerals are bold and stylized, matching the letterforms’ carved rhythm; the “2” and “3” in particular lean into a calligraphic, hand-drawn flair. Spacing appears somewhat variable from glyph to glyph, contributing to an organic, printed-by-hand texture in lines of text.