Print Vakiz 5 is a regular weight, very narrow, low contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, book covers, headlines, greeting cards, quirky, whimsical, handmade, playful, friendly, hand-lettered, casual tone, compact display, personality, monoline, tall, bouncy, inked, irregular.
A tall, condensed handwritten print with monoline strokes and softly irregular contours. Stems are long and slender, with rounded terminals and occasional ink-like wobble that keeps edges from feeling mechanical. Letterforms stay mostly upright while width and spacing vary slightly from glyph to glyph, creating a lively rhythm. Counters are compact and openings are modest, contributing to a narrow, vertical overall color.
Well-suited to short display copy where a handmade, informal voice is desired—such as posters, packaging labels, book covers, and playful headlines. It can also work for greeting cards and craft-oriented branding where the narrow footprint helps fit more characters into limited space.
The tone is casual and personable, with a quirky, storybook-like charm. Its narrow, elongated forms feel a bit mischievous and theatrical, while the hand-drawn irregularities keep it approachable rather than formal.
The design appears intended to mimic quick, confident hand lettering in a condensed format, balancing legibility with visible human variation. Its consistent monoline construction suggests a goal of easy, casual expressiveness for display text rather than meticulous typographic neutrality.
Capitals read as simple, elongated constructions that pair cleanly with similarly narrow lowercase. Ascenders and descenders are prominent, giving mixed-case text a strongly vertical texture. Numerals follow the same slim, hand-inked logic and sit comfortably alongside the letters for informal display settings.