Solid Kori 2 is a very bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font visually similar to 'FHA Sign DeVinne' by Fontry West, 'Brim Narrow' by Jamie Clarke Type, and 'Bunlay' by ahweproject (names referenced only for comparison).
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, signage, victorian, carnival, western, theatrical, playful, max impact, vintage display, graphic silhouette, themed signage, bulky, faceted, bracketed, flared, ornamental.
A heavy, compact display face with chunky, sculpted letterforms and sharply notched corners. Strokes alternate between broad slabs and tapered wedges, creating a cut-paper or carved-wood effect with pronounced angular facets and small triangular bites at joins. Counters are often reduced or visually collapsed, with teardrop-like terminals and bulbous masses that keep the texture dense and dark. The silhouette remains upright and stable, while individual glyphs show slightly irregular contour decisions that add a hand-cut, poster-like rhythm.
Best suited to short display settings such as posters, headlines, event titles, logos, and bold packaging marks where its dense texture can read as a graphic shape. It can work well for themed signage and decorative titling, but is likely to require larger sizes and generous tracking for longer text.
The tone is bold and theatrical, evoking vintage showcards, circus signage, and frontier-era posters. Its dense black shapes and decorative nicks feel playful and a little mischievous, leaning into spectacle and melodrama rather than refinement.
The design appears intended to maximize visual impact through solid, shadowless massing and ornamental corner cuts, delivering a vintage display feel that holds up as a strong silhouette. By collapsing interior spaces and emphasizing faceted edges, it prioritizes poster presence and thematic character over continuous-text readability.
In the sample text, the tight internal spaces and heavy joins make long lines look almost like a continuous band of black, so spacing and size become critical for legibility. The numerals match the same blocky, faceted construction and read best when given room and strong contrast against the background.