Solid Egpe 2 is a very bold, normal width, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, branding, packaging, kids media, playful, chunky, quirky, cartoon, retro, whimsy, impact, personality, handmade, rounded, blobby, soft corners, uneven, bubbly.
A heavy, rounded display face with inflated, blobby forms and a deliberately uneven rhythm. Strokes read as thick and soft-edged, with corners heavily radiused and many joins swelling into teardrop-like terminals. Counters are frequently reduced or collapsed, producing solid-looking shapes in letters such as B, D, O, P, and 8, while other glyphs keep small openings, creating a mixed, handmade texture. Proportions vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, and widths fluctuate, reinforcing an irregular, cutout-like silhouette in both capitals and lowercase.
Best suited to short, high-impact display settings such as posters, headlines, playful branding, packaging, and event graphics where a bold, friendly voice is needed. It also fits kids-oriented media, stickers, titles, and oversized signage where the chunky silhouettes can carry the message without relying on fine internal counters.
The overall tone is playful and cartoonish, with a friendly, slightly goofy energy. Its solid, bulbous shapes evoke toy-like signage and casual, humorous messaging rather than formal typography. The irregularities add charm and a handmade feel, giving it a retro novelty flavor.
The design appears intended to prioritize a bold, tactile silhouette and whimsical personality over conventional letter construction. By compressing or collapsing counters and introducing uneven, swollen terminals, it aims for immediate visual impact and a distinctive novelty tone in display typography.
In text, the dense fills and reduced counters create strong color on the page and a distinctive silhouette at large sizes, but internal detail can disappear quickly as size drops. The numeral set matches the same soft, swollen geometry, with especially round 0 and 8 forms and simplified interiors that emphasize mass over precision.