Wacky Doleh 10 is a light, normal width, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, book covers, packaging, event flyers, quirky, playful, handmade, whimsical, eccentric, expressiveness, handmade feel, quirky display, textural impact, spiky, wiry, jagged, kinky, uneven.
This font uses slender, slightly uneven strokes with a lively, hand-drawn rhythm. Letterforms mix rounded bowls with sharp, spur-like terminals and occasional angular incisions that create a scratchy, distressed feel. Proportions vary from glyph to glyph, with irregular counters and offbeat curves that give the set an intentionally inconsistent texture. Uppercase shapes tend to be taller and more angular, while the lowercase stays compact with small, simple bowls and narrow stems; numerals follow the same wiry, lightly irregular construction.
Best suited to display use where its irregular texture can be appreciated—posters, titles, packaging accents, and playful or eerie promotional materials. It can work for short bursts of text (taglines, pull quotes) when you want a distinctive voice, but its uneven forms and distressed details are most effective at larger sizes.
The overall tone is mischievous and off-kilter, reading as intentionally imperfect rather than polished. Its scratchy cut-ins and odd terminals add a slightly spooky, storybook flavor, making it feel more like a character voice than a neutral text tool.
The design appears intended to inject personality through deliberate irregularity—combining simple skeletal shapes with scratchy, cut-in details to create a one-off, expressive display face. It aims to feel handmade and slightly unruly, emphasizing character and atmosphere over typographic neutrality.
Spacing and silhouette feel intentionally unpredictable, producing a bouncy line color in words and mixed-case settings. The most distinctive feature is the recurring jagged nibbling/etching effect along strokes, which becomes more noticeable at larger sizes.