Print Vigum 16 is a light, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, book covers, headlines, packaging, titles, hand-drawn, whimsical, storybook, wiry, rustic, handmade feel, playful tone, storybook display, textured charm, informal character, irregular, inked, jagged, textured, bouncy.
A wiry, hand-drawn print with irregular stroke edges and subtly wavering verticals. Letterforms are compact and often slightly pinched, with uneven curves and occasional spiky terminals that suggest a dry-ink or brush-on-paper texture. Counters tend to be small and somewhat inconsistent, and spacing varies from glyph to glyph, creating a lively, non-mechanical rhythm. Overall construction stays legible, but embraces intentional roughness and asymmetry for character.
Best suited to display settings where personality is the goal, such as posters, book covers, short headlines, packaging, and event titles. It can work for brief passages in larger sizes, but the irregular spacing and textured strokes are most effective when the text is allowed room to breathe.
The font conveys a playful, slightly eerie storybook tone—casual and human, with a hint of rustic mischief. Its jittery contours and bouncy rhythm feel handmade and expressive rather than polished, lending it an illustrative, craft-like personality.
Likely designed to capture a hand-inked, informal print aesthetic with deliberate imperfections—prioritizing charm, immediacy, and a slightly theatrical mood over typographic neutrality. The consistent rough contouring across letters and figures suggests an intention to feel authored and illustrative in use.
Uppercase shapes show simplified, hand-rendered proportions with occasional exaggerated joins and uneven bowls, while lowercase forms remain narrow and minimal, with slender stems and small apertures. Numerals follow the same handmade logic, with variable widths and a lightly quirky silhouette that keeps the set cohesive.