Print Wanag 5 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, headlines, social media, zines, handmade, quirky, playful, casual, expressive, handmade feel, casual voice, lively texture, compact display, brushy, textured, uneven, organic, wiry.
A compact, handwritten print style with tall, condensed proportions and a noticeably irregular stroke edge. Letterforms show high stroke contrast with tapered, brush-like terminals and occasional blunt, inked-in endings. Curves are slightly lumpy and asymmetrical, while verticals often feel wiry and lightly wavering, producing an intentionally uneven rhythm. Spacing and widths vary from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an informal, drawn-on-paper look while remaining broadly legible in text.
This font suits short to medium-length display text where a handmade voice is desirable—posters, product packaging, café or craft branding, social posts, zines, and informal signage. It can also work for pull quotes or headings in editorial layouts when paired with a calmer text face for body copy.
The overall tone is casual and human, with a quirky, slightly scrappy energy that reads like quick marker or brush lettering. Its imperfections and textured contours suggest spontaneity and friendliness rather than precision or formality.
The design appears intended to capture the immediacy of hand-drawn brush/marker lettering in a compact, condensed footprint, prioritizing personality and texture over strict consistency. Its variable widths and rough contours are used to create a lively, human rhythm while keeping the forms readable across common pangram-style sample text.
Uppercase forms tend to feel more graphic and monoline-adjacent in silhouette despite the contrast, while lowercase has a looser, more note-like character with simplified constructions (single-storey shapes and straightforward joins). Numerals follow the same hand-drawn logic, with uneven bowls and varied widths that match the alphabet’s organic rhythm.