Wacky Wafa 10 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album covers, event flyers, stickers, wacky, handmade, grungy, playful, edgy, expressiveness, handmade feel, quirky display, rough texture, brushy, ragged, inked, scratchy, expressive.
A slanted, brush-script display with irregular stroke edges and frequent fraying terminals that mimic dry-brush ink. Letterforms are loosely cursive with intermittent connections, giving a lively but uneven rhythm across words. Strokes swell and taper subtly, with occasional hooks and flicks on ascenders and descenders, and an overall casual baseline with small jumps in height and spacing. Uppercase forms read as stylized caps rather than formal romans, while lowercase maintains a compact feel and a relatively small x-height.
Best suited to short, attention-grabbing lines where the rough brush texture can read clearly—posters, flyers, packaging accents, album/playlist artwork, and social graphics. It works well when paired with a calmer sans or serif for supporting text, letting this face carry the expressive headline role.
The texture and ragged contours create a mischievous, offbeat tone—part hand-painted sign, part doodled marker note. It feels energetic and slightly chaotic, with a playful roughness that leans toward quirky and rebellious rather than polished or elegant.
Likely designed to capture the spontaneity of quick brush lettering while amplifying its imperfections for character. The goal appears to be a distinctive, one-off display voice with strong texture and a deliberately irregular rhythm.
The distinctive “bristled” bottoms and broken-looking edges become a primary visual feature, especially in tighter word settings. Numerals and punctuation follow the same scratchy brush logic, keeping the set visually consistent for informal display use.