Slab Contrasted Ohvi 1 is a very bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, signage, western, vintage, rustic, rugged, playful, woodtype feel, vintage texture, poster impact, rugged branding, blocky, stamp-like, distressed, bracketed, heavyweight.
A heavy, blocky slab-serif with compact interior counters and sturdy, squared-off construction. Strokes show noticeable modulation, with pronounced slabs and bracketed joins that give the shapes a carved, poster-like solidity. Edges are intentionally roughened with small nicks and pits across strokes, creating a printed or worn texture rather than crisp outlines. The lowercase keeps a straightforward, workmanlike skeleton with rounded bowls and short ascenders/descenders, maintaining strong color and consistent rhythm in text.
Best suited to display use such as posters, headlines, labels, and branding that benefits from a rugged, retro slab-serif presence. It can also work for short subheads or punchy callouts in editorial layouts where a textured, printed feel is desired, but it is less ideal for long-form reading due to its dense color and distressed detail.
The overall tone feels old-timey and frontier-adjacent, with a robust, hand-printed character. Its distressed surface adds a tactile, imperfect charm that reads as authentic, gritty, and slightly playful—more saloon poster than corporate signage.
The design appears intended to evoke traditional wood type and worn letterpress printing, combining assertive slab serifs with deliberate surface distress to deliver strong impact and nostalgic character.
The texture is distributed across most glyphs (including numerals), so the distressed effect remains present even in larger text blocks. Dense letterforms and small counters can make the face feel dark at smaller sizes, while the bold slabs and rough edge detail become more engaging at display scales.