Print Gobug 9 is a regular weight, very narrow, low contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: packaging, posters, headlines, stickers, social graphics, playful, hand-drawn, quirky, casual, friendly, handmade feel, casual voice, compact display, human warmth, condensed, monoline, rounded, bouncy, irregular.
A condensed, hand-drawn print style with monoline strokes and softly rounded terminals. Letterforms show subtle wobble and uneven stroke edges, creating an organic rhythm while maintaining clear, mostly upright construction. Counters are compact and apertures tend to be narrow, with tall ascenders/uppercase and relatively small lowercase bodies that emphasize a slender vertical silhouette. Spacing and widths vary slightly from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an informal, drawn-on-paper feel.
Best suited for short to medium-length display text where a handmade voice is desirable—packaging callouts, poster headlines, storefront or event signage, stickers, and casual social media graphics. It can also work for small blocks of copy when generous tracking and leading are used to preserve readability in its tight, condensed forms.
The overall tone is light, approachable, and slightly quirky, like quick marker or brush-pen lettering used for notes, labels, and handmade signage. Its narrow proportions and lively irregularity give it an energetic, crafty character without feeling overly decorative.
The design appears intended to mimic quick, confident hand lettering with a narrow footprint—delivering an informal, personal tone while staying legible and orderly enough for everyday display use.
The font keeps a consistent stroke thickness across curves and straights, and many shapes lean on simplified, single-storey handwritten constructions in the lowercase. Numerals follow the same narrow, hand-rendered logic, reading clearly while retaining the same imperfect, human texture.