Print Orkad 5 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, branding, packaging, social media, headlines, energetic, casual, expressive, punchy, friendly, display impact, handmade feel, motion, personality, brushy, slanted, condensed, angular, high-ink.
A condensed, right-slanted brush script with assertive, inky strokes and a lively handwritten rhythm. Letterforms are mostly unconnected, with tapered terminals and occasional teardrop-like ends that suggest a fast brush or marker. Strokes show subtle modulation and pressure changes, creating a dynamic baseline texture; counters are compact and shapes lean tall, with relatively small lowercase bodies and prominent ascenders/descenders. Numerals and capitals follow the same brisk, calligraphic energy, keeping spacing tight and forms slightly irregular in a natural hand-drawn way.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, cover lines, packaging callouts, and social media graphics. It can also work for branding elements like wordmarks and labels when a casual, energetic brush feel is desired, while body text is likely too dense and stylistically prominent.
The overall tone is upbeat and informal, with a sporty, headline-ready urgency. Its brisk slant and bold brush texture convey confidence and motion, reading as personable rather than formal or delicate.
The design appears intended to capture quick, confident brush lettering in a compact, vertical footprint, prioritizing momentum and personality over strict uniformity. Its consistent slant, heavy ink presence, and lively stroke endings aim to deliver strong display readability with a hand-made, expressive voice.
The alphabet includes several distinctive, simplified handwritten constructions (notably in the narrow uppercase and the single-storey lowercase forms), which enhance character but can increase stylistic presence in longer passages. The dark fill and tight internal spaces make it most comfortable at display sizes where the brush detail and counters can breathe.