Print Osban 10 is a bold, very narrow, high contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, branding, packaging, social media, playful, energetic, casual, retro, handmade, handwritten feel, display impact, space saving, casual tone, retro flavor, brushy, slanted, condensed, expressive, bouncy.
This typeface has a fast, brush-pen feel with a consistent rightward slant and compact, vertically stretched proportions. Strokes show pronounced thick–thin modulation with tapered terminals and occasional ink-like swelling, giving letters a lively, hand-rendered rhythm. Forms are mostly open and simplified, with narrow counters and tight overall spacing; curves are slightly irregular, reinforcing the drawn quality while maintaining strong consistency across the set.
Well-suited for short, prominent copy such as posters, headlines, logos, product packaging, and social graphics where an expressive handwritten tone is desired. It can also work for pull quotes or display typography in editorial layouts, especially when you want a condensed, energetic texture without resorting to a formal script.
The overall tone is upbeat and informal, suggesting quick personal lettering with a confident, showy flair. Its narrow, leaning silhouettes and punchy contrast create a sense of motion and immediacy that reads as friendly and attention-seeking rather than formal.
The design appears intended to mimic quick brush lettering in a condensed, repeatable form—capturing the spontaneity of hand-drawn strokes while staying legible and cohesive across uppercase, lowercase, and figures. Its emphasis on slant, contrast, and narrow proportions suggests a display-first goal: delivering personality and motion in compact horizontal space.
Uppercase and lowercase share a cohesive, streamlined construction, and numerals follow the same slanted, brushy logic for a unified texture in mixed settings. The texture can appear quite dark in blocks of text due to the heavy downstrokes, so it tends to read best when given breathing room or set at larger sizes.