Print Emlu 2 is a very bold, very narrow, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, stickers, album art, grunge, handmade, quirky, punchy, retro, hand-printed feel, distressed texture, display impact, diy character, rough edges, stamp-like, inked, condensed, irregular.
A condensed, heavy display face with blunt, blocky letterforms and visibly irregular contours. Strokes are thick and mostly uniform, with softly chipped corners and uneven edges that resemble ink spread or a worn stamp. Counters tend to be tight and squarish, terminals are cut-off rather than tapered, and widths vary slightly from glyph to glyph, creating an uneven rhythm. The overall texture is dense and poster-forward, with a lively, imperfect baseline and inconsistent internal spacing that reinforces the hand-rendered feel.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, event graphics, album/playlist covers, packaging accents, and sticker or label designs where texture is desirable. It can also work for playful branding marks or merch graphics, but is less suited to long-form reading due to its dense weight and irregular spacing.
The font conveys a raw, handmade energy—bold and attention-grabbing while staying playful and a bit unruly. Its distressed edges and compressed stance suggest DIY printing, zines, band flyers, or novelty signage, with a faint vintage poster vibe rather than a polished corporate tone.
The design appears intended to mimic hand-printed lettering with a worn, inked finish—combining a condensed silhouette for strong vertical presence with deliberately imperfect edges to add character and grit. Its goal is immediate visual impact and personality rather than typographic neutrality.
At smaller sizes the tight counters and heavy mass can cause letters to darken and shapes to merge, while at larger sizes the rough contour detail becomes a key feature. The all-caps set reads especially strong for headlines, and the numerals match the same rugged, inked texture for consistent display use.