Print Balas 4 is a very light, very narrow, low contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, fantasy ui, game props, album art, posters, runic, occult, wiry, hand-drawn, edgy, arcane feel, handmade texture, display impact, themed branding, angular, spiky, monoline, scratchy, irregular.
A wiry, monoline handwritten print with angular construction and frequent sharp terminals. Strokes feel like they were drawn with a fine pen, producing slightly shaky contours and inconsistent joins that emphasize the hand-made rhythm. Many forms rely on straight segments and pointed corners, with occasional diamond-like counters and wedge-shaped notches; round letters tend to be faceted rather than smooth. Spacing and widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, and the lowercase sits relatively small against the tall ascenders, reinforcing a lean, striated texture in text.
Best suited to short display settings where its spiky, rune-like flavor can be read as a stylistic asset—such as horror or fantasy titles, game interfaces and prop lettering, event posters, album/track artwork, or themed packaging. It can also work for logos or headers when a hand-scratched, arcane mood is desired, but it will be less comfortable for long passages at small sizes.
The overall tone is cryptic and ritualistic, reading like improvised runes or carved markings translated into a Latin alphabet. Its irregularity and sharp geometry give it an uneasy, dramatic edge that suits mysterious, eerie, or archaic themes more than everyday neutrality.
The design appears intended to evoke an archaic, rune-inspired hand while remaining readable as a Latin print alphabet. By keeping strokes thin and upright and leaning into faceted geometry, it prioritizes atmosphere and character over smooth regularity.
Caps and lowercase share a consistent sharp-angled vocabulary, but individual letters show deliberate idiosyncrasies (especially in bowls, diagonals, and cross-strokes) that keep the line lively. Numerals follow the same faceted logic, with distinctive angular 2/3 and an 8 formed from stacked diamond shapes.