Print Ilti 1 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, titles, headlines, book covers, game ui, medieval, dramatic, rustic, hand-drawn, gothic, historical evoke, fantasy tone, handmade texture, display impact, ornamental caps, angular, flared, spiky, irregular, high-impact.
A compact, hand-rendered blackletter-inspired display face with sharp terminals, chiseled joins, and frequent wedge-like flares. Strokes feel brushy and cut with subtle irregularities, creating a lively rhythm and slightly uneven color across words. Counters are small and often pinched, with pointed curves and occasional hooked or beaked endings that emphasize a carved, calligraphic construction. Overall spacing and widths vary from glyph to glyph, reinforcing the drawn, expressive character rather than a strictly geometric system.
Best suited to short display settings such as titles, posters, packaging, and chapter heads where its angular details can be appreciated. It also fits fantasy or medieval-themed branding and game/UI labels, but will be more successful at larger sizes than in dense body copy.
The font conveys a medieval, storybook tone with a bold, theatrical edge. Its spiky silhouettes and inked texture suggest old-world signage, fantasy settings, and dramatic titling rather than polite modern text.
The design appears intended to evoke hand-drawn, blackletter-like lettering with a bold, cut-pen or brushed texture, prioritizing atmosphere and character over strict regularity. Its narrow, dramatic forms and pointed terminals aim to deliver immediate thematic impact in display typography.
Uppercase forms read as ornamental and emblematic, while the lowercase keeps the same jagged, tapered logic and can appear intentionally quirky in running text. The figures are similarly stylized, with curved, pointed forms that match the letter terminals and maintain a cohesive, historicized feel.