Print Gyrem 5 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, reverse italic, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, album covers, book covers, headlines, playful, quirky, handmade, retro, whimsical, handmade feel, novelty display, themed lettering, expressive texture, wobbly, irregular, soft-edged, bouncy, cartoony.
A hand-drawn, blackletter-tinged display face with chunky strokes and noticeably uneven contours, as if cut or brushed by hand. Letterforms lean with a backslanted (reverse-italic) posture and show variable character widths, producing a lively, slightly unstable rhythm across words. Stems often taper into flared, teardrop-like terminals and many counters are compact, with occasional pinched joins and subtly asymmetric bowls. The lowercase maintains a relatively tall x-height and simplified shapes, while capitals are more decorative and angular, giving the overall set a bold, poster-ready texture.
Best suited to display settings where texture and personality are the priority: posters, cover art, event promos, packaging, and short headline copy. It works especially well for themed materials (retro, Halloween/spooky-fun, circus/carnival, or whimsical editorial accents) where a rough-hewn, animated tone is desirable.
The font projects a mischievous, storybook energy—part vintage fairground sign, part spooky-fun novelty. Its irregularity and reverse slant create a sense of motion and personality, leaning more toward charm and humor than strict formality.
The design appears intended to emulate informal hand lettering with a decorative, slightly gothic flavor, prioritizing expressive silhouettes and a lively baseline over typographic uniformity. Its reverse slant and flared terminals seem aimed at creating instant visual character in large sizes.
Spacing and silhouettes feel intentionally inconsistent, which enhances the handmade character but can reduce clarity at smaller sizes. The figures and punctuation share the same blobby, tapered treatment, keeping the texture cohesive in headlines and short phrases.