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Printf

by Typodermic
Individual Styles from $69.95 USD
The Printf Font Family was designed by Ray Larabie and published by Typodermic. Printf contains 1 styles.

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PRINTF is a mechanical voice from a pre-desktop world. Born from the high-speed chain printers of the 1960s and ’70s, its all-caps forms, fixed spacing, and faintly battered edges recall the hum of machinery and the chatter of paper advancing on perforated tracks. But its personality isn’t bound to one machine—it carries traces of the manual typewriter, the clipped tone of a telegram, and the staccato order of bureaucratic forms.

Use it to summon the look of library cards, shipping labels, driver’s licenses, or teletype transcripts. Give your zines a newsroom edge, your album covers a retrofuturist pulse, or your posters the deadpan authority of official notices. In creative hands, PRINTF can be lab coat–precise, post office–dull, or punk show–chaotic. Every character is shaped for authenticity, from the pragmatic letterforms to the idiosyncratic pairings that mimic the quirks of old impact printing. It’s multilingual too, with support for a wide range of Latin-based European languages, Greek, and some Cyrillic scripts—ready to bring that vintage, mechanical tone to designs across cultures.

PRINTF is for designers who know that sometimes the loudest message is delivered in the quiet, unwavering click of a machine that never thought it was making art.

Designers: Ray Larabie

Publisher: Typodermic

Foundry: Typodermic

Design Owner: Typodermic

MyFonts debut: Apr 4, 2007

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About Typodermic

Welcome to Typodermic Fonts, a spirited type foundry rooted in Nagoya, Japan, started by the Canadian typeface designer, Raymond Larabie in 2001. Our library brims with 500+ diverse typefaces to fuel creativity in graphic design, advertising, web, and app development. As digital type pioneers, we adopted web fonts and app licensing early, consistently pushing the design envelope. With Canadian heart and Japanese precision, we're your global partners in extraordinary typography. Explore Typodermic Fonts—where creativity meets character.

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