Slab Contrasted Egsi 2 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, packaging, logotypes, western, vintage, poster, playful, bold, impact, nostalgia, display, blocky, bracketed, chunky, rounded, ink-trap like.
A heavy, blocky slab serif with broad proportions and compact counters. Strokes are thick with gently rounded joins and corners, and the slab terminals read as rectangular and bracketed, giving the letterforms a carved, stamped feel. Many glyphs show small interior notches and tight apertures that add texture and help separate dense shapes at large sizes. The overall rhythm is sturdy and emphatic, with simple construction and high visual mass across caps, lowercase, and figures.
Best suited to display applications where impact and character matter: posters, banners, event titles, storefront-style signage, packaging fronts, and bold logotypes. It can also work for short, punchy subheads or callouts where the rugged slab structure and decorative notches remain legible.
The font projects a classic Americana and poster-print energy—confident, attention-grabbing, and slightly whimsical. Its chunky slabs and decorative notching evoke wood type, circus and fair signage, and retro headline typography, lending a friendly but assertive tone.
The design appears intended to reinterpret bold slab/wood-type traditions for modern display use, emphasizing punchy silhouettes, sturdy slab serifs, and a touch of ornamental notching to create a memorable, vintage-leaning voice.
At text sizes the dense forms and compact counters can darken quickly, but in display settings the distinctive slabs, rounded geometry, and small cut-in details become a strong identifying signature. The numerals follow the same heavy, blocklike logic, supporting consistent headline and label use.