Slab Contrasted Hori 2 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, sports, packaging, logos, retro, sporty, playful, bold, assertive, impact, display, motion, retro flavor, branding, bracketed, beaky, compact, chunky, bouncy.
A heavy, right-leaning slab serif with chunky, sculpted letterforms and bracketed slab terminals. Strokes feel carved rather than geometric, with gently modulated thickness and pronounced, beak-like corners on several joins and serifs. The rhythm is lively and slightly irregular, with wedgey cut-ins and angled joins that create a dynamic, bouncing texture in words. Counters are relatively tight, and the overall silhouette reads sturdy and compact, with strong baseline presence and emphatic serifs that help lock letters together into bold shapes.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as headlines, posters, event titles, sports branding, and bold packaging callouts. It can also work for logo wordmarks where a vintage, punchy slab presence is desired, but long passages will typically need larger sizes and looser leading for comfortable reading.
The tone is energetic and extroverted, combining a vintage, poster-like swagger with a friendly, punchy attitude. Its slanted stance and chunky slabs suggest motion and impact, giving it a sporty, headline-forward personality that feels both retro and playful.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a lively italicized slab serif voice—mixing sturdy, traditional slab cues with animated, contemporary shaping. Its carved corners and bracketed slabs emphasize display readability and personality over neutrality.
In the sample text, the weight and tight counters create dense word shapes; spacing and line breaks benefit from generous leading to keep the texture from feeling too dark. The numerals match the same stout, slabbed construction and maintain the same forward-leaning momentum as the letters.