Print Ekday 3 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, packaging, headlines, stickers, grungy, handmade, playful, casual, punky, handmade feel, raw texture, casual display, diy aesthetic, rough-edged, dry-brush, inked, irregular, textured.
A chunky, hand-drawn print face with irregular, brushy contours and visibly ragged edges. Strokes are heavy and mostly monolinear in feel, with slight swelling and tapering that suggests a marker or dry-brush tool. Letterforms lean on simple, rounded structures, but spacing and widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, creating an uneven rhythm and an organic texture across lines. Counters are compact and often slightly lopsided, while terminals end bluntly with frayed silhouettes rather than crisp cuts.
Best suited for short, high-impact copy where texture and personality are assets—posters, event flyers, album/mixtape artwork, product packaging accents, sticker-style graphics, and bold social media headlines. It can also work for pull quotes or section headers when you want an intentionally imperfect, handcrafted feel.
The overall tone is informal and expressive, with a gritty, DIY energy. It reads as friendly and playful at a glance, but the rough surface and unevenness add attitude that can feel rebellious or street-zine adjacent.
Likely designed to mimic quick, hand-painted or marker-lettered signage, emphasizing texture and spontaneity over geometric precision. The goal appears to be an energetic display face that feels personal and tactile, with enough consistency to set readable words while retaining a raw, drawn-by-hand character.
The distressed outline texture is consistent across caps, lowercase, and numerals, giving text a cohesive “inked by hand” look. At smaller sizes the rough edges may visually thicken joins and close apertures, while at display sizes the handmade texture becomes a prominent stylistic feature.