Print Ednum 12 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: halloween, posters, book covers, packaging, headlines, spooky, vintage, quirky, handmade, worn, distressed look, handmade feel, display impact, vintage tone, textured, inked, scratchy, irregular, condensed.
This font presents a condensed, hand-drawn print style with mostly unconnected letterforms and a lively, uneven rhythm. Strokes show a dry-ink, distressed texture with small burrs, nicks, and tapering terminals, creating a slightly weathered edge. Proportions are narrow overall with tall ascenders and relatively small lowercase bodies, while counters tend to be compact and the baseline feel subtly unstable. The design mixes simple, rounded lowercase shapes with more stylized uppercase forms, producing a playful contrast between cases and a deliberately imperfect, handmade finish.
Best suited to display settings where texture and character are an advantage, such as Halloween or horror-themed graphics, event posters, book or album covers, and artisanal packaging. It can work for short bursts of text (taglines, labels, pull quotes) when a handmade, slightly unsettling voice is desired, but the distressed detailing favors larger sizes over dense body copy.
The overall tone is eerie yet playful—like a worn title card, sideshow poster, or storybook heading. The scratchy texture and irregular stroke endings add tension and a hint of menace, while the narrow, bouncy forms keep it informal and characterful rather than strictly gothic or formal.
The design appears intended to mimic inked, hand-rendered lettering with a deliberately aged or distressed surface. Its narrow proportions and animated irregularities suggest a goal of creating attention-grabbing titles with a quirky, vintage-leaning atmosphere.
Uppercase letters carry the strongest personality, with occasional dramatic curves and spur-like terminals that read well at larger sizes. Numerals and lowercase appear simpler and more utilitarian, but they retain the same distressed edges, helping maintain cohesion across mixed text.