Solid Vily 2 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, logotypes, event flyers, playful, chunky, retro, quirky, cartoon, maximum impact, novelty display, handmade feel, silhouette-driven, rounded, blobby, soft corners, stamp-like, bulbous.
A heavy, soft-edged display face with rounded, inflated silhouettes and uneven, hand-formed contours. Counters are largely closed or reduced to small slits, creating solid black masses with occasional notches and cut-ins that suggest inner structure rather than open bowls. Stems and arms vary subtly in thickness, terminals often swell into bulb-like ends, and spacing feels chunky and compact, producing an irregular rhythm with lively texture across words.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, headlines, product packaging, and logo wordmarks where its solid shapes can read as graphic forms. It works well in playful or retro-themed branding and display settings, but is less appropriate for long passages or small UI text due to the minimized interior openings.
The overall tone is playful and mischievous, with a retro, cartoonish flavor that reads more as characterful shapes than conventional letterforms. Its inky, closed-in construction gives it a bold, punchy presence that can feel humorous, eccentric, and a little spooky or kitschy depending on context.
The design appears intended to maximize visual punch through dense, near-solid letterforms while preserving recognizability via distinctive outer silhouettes and selective cut-ins. It aims to deliver a novelty display voice with an intentionally irregular, handcrafted feel rather than strict typographic neutrality.
Distinctive silhouettes and collapsed counters boost impact but reduce clarity at smaller sizes, especially in letters that normally rely on open bowls (e.g., O/C/e/a) and in dense text. The font’s personality comes through most in its wobbly edges, swollen terminals, and the way internal notches hint at structure without fully opening forms.