Slab Square Sivi 8 is a bold, wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, signage, logotypes, industrial, retro, western, sturdy, display, impact, ruggedness, vintage flavor, signage strength, distinct texture, blocky, angular, chiseled, bracketless, ink-trap-like.
A heavy, block-built slab serif with squared bowls and counters, sharply cut corners, and flat terminals. Strokes are broadly uniform, with minimal modulation and a compact, engineered feel. The serifs read as bold, rectangular slabs that frequently flare into wedge-like cuts, and many joins show notch-like cut-ins that resemble ink traps or chamfered carving. Proportions are generously wide with sturdy verticals and crisp, rectilinear curves, giving the alphabet a strong, poster-friendly rhythm.
Best suited to display settings where its carved corners and chunky slabs can be appreciated—posters, bold headlines, branding marks, labels, and signage. It can work for short bursts of text, but the dense texture and strong detailing are most effective at moderate-to-large sizes.
The tone feels rugged and assertive, mixing old-style woodtype energy with a utilitarian, industrial edge. Its hard angles and chiseled details evoke frontier signage and mechanical labeling at the same time, projecting confidence and toughness.
Designed to deliver maximum impact with a rugged slab serif voice, combining squared construction with distinctive cut-in details to create a memorable, stamp/woodtype-like silhouette. The goal appears to be high visibility and a characteristic vintage-industrial flavor rather than neutral text reading.
The face relies on distinctive corner carving and squared geometry for texture, which becomes especially noticeable in round letters and diagonals. Numerals share the same angular construction and slab treatment, maintaining a consistent, emphatic color across mixed text.