Groovy Epky 9 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, album art, groovy, playful, retro, bubbly, funky, nostalgia, attention, whimsy, impact, personality, soft corners, blobby, organic, rounded, puffy.
A heavy, rounded display face built from blobby, organic forms with pronounced swelling at terminals and joints. Strokes behave like soft, inflated shapes rather than rigid curves, creating a lively in-and-out rhythm along stems, bowls, and arms. Counters are generally compact and teardrop-like, and the overall silhouette favors bulbous masses with occasional pinched connections, producing a strong, high-impact texture at larger sizes.
Best suited for headlines and short display settings where its chunky silhouettes can read clearly and deliver character—such as posters, retro-themed branding, packaging, and music or event graphics. It can work in short bursts for pull quotes or titles, but its dense, sculpted shapes are less appropriate for long-form reading.
The letterforms evoke a cheerful, throwback sensibility with a lighthearted, psychedelic-leaning bounce. Its soft, gummy shapes feel friendly and animated, giving text a tongue-in-cheek, party-poster energy rather than a formal tone.
The design appears intended to capture a bold, nostalgic display voice through soft, swelling geometry and intentionally quirky shaping. By prioritizing silhouette and rhythmic bounce over strict typographic regularity, it aims to create instant visual flavor and a memorable, era-referential impact.
The set shows deliberately irregular internal spacing and varying footprint across characters, which adds personality but also makes lines of text form a dense, textured block. Numerals and lowercase follow the same inflated logic, keeping the voice consistent across the glyph set.