Slab Contrasted Lyvu 6 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, signage, logos, retro, playful, sturdy, industrial, friendly, impact, display, branding, nostalgia, rounded, blocky, soft-cornered, compact, ink-trap-like.
A heavy, blocky slab-serif with softened corners and pronounced, rectangular terminals. The design uses tight internal counters and rounded rectangular apertures (notably in O/o and numerals), creating a stenciled, cut-in feel without true breaks. Letterforms lean geometric with broad shoulders and blunt joins, plus small notch-like details where strokes meet, giving a slightly engineered rhythm. Spacing and widths vary across glyphs, but the overall silhouette stays compact and strongly rectangular, maintaining a consistent, poster-ready color.
Best suited to display sizes where its chunky slabs and rounded cut-ins can be appreciated—headlines, posters, storefront-style signage, and packaging. It can also work for bold wordmarks and short UI labels when ample size and spacing are available, but it is less ideal for long passages of small text due to dense interiors.
The tone is bold and approachable, mixing workwear toughness with a retro display charm. Its softened slabs and rounded interiors keep it friendly rather than aggressive, while the dense black shapes communicate confidence and impact. The result feels nostalgic—like mid-century signage—yet still playful enough for contemporary branding.
The font appears designed to deliver maximum visual weight with a distinctive slab-serif personality, combining geometric fullness with softened corners and engineered notches. The aim seems to be a memorable, high-impact display face that evokes vintage signage and industrial print while staying personable and modern.
The large, rectangular serifs and tight counters can begin to close up in smaller settings, especially in letters with interior cut-ins (e.g., a, e, s) and in the heavier numerals. In headlines, the distinctive notch-and-slab construction reads clearly and gives words a strong, patterned texture.