Wacky Apma 2 is a very bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, titles, packaging, branding, playful, quirky, theatrical, mischievous, retro, attention, humor, character, display, impact, chunky, slabbed, stencil-like, cutout, notched.
The design is built from heavy, compact slabs and bulbous curves that are repeatedly interrupted by sharp notches, inner slits, and wedge-like cut-ins. Counters are often partially occluded or reshaped into teardrops and crescents, creating a strong stencil-like fragmentation and an uneven, syncopated texture across words. Proportions vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, with abrupt transitions between flat verticals and swollen bowls, producing a chunky, collage-like silhouette in both uppercase and lowercase.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, headlines, event promotions, album or podcast titles, and packaging where a bold, offbeat voice is desired. It can also work for playful branding accents, logotypes, or stickers/merch graphics. Because the interior cuts and tight apertures add visual noise, it is less appropriate for long-form reading or small UI text.
This face projects a playful, mischievous energy with a slightly surreal, cut-paper feel. The rhythm is punchy and theatrical, reading as attention-seeking and intentionally odd rather than polite or neutral.
This font appears designed to function as a characterful display face where unusual internal cuts and exaggerated slabs become the main identity. The irregular negative-space carving suggests an intent to create visual surprise and a memorable word shape, even at the cost of conventional smoothness.
Several glyphs incorporate distinctive internal vertical slashes and asymmetric bite marks, giving the alphabet a hand-cut, assembled quality. Numerals and punctuation follow the same carved, chunky logic, helping the overall set feel cohesive as a display system.