Slab Square Poka 5 is a bold, wide, monoline, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, signage, packaging, logos, industrial, retro, technical, arcade, utilitarian, impact, modularity, industrial tone, retro tech, square, blocky, orthogonal, stenciled, bracketless.
A squarish slab-serif design built from straight, orthogonal strokes with crisp right-angle corners and flat terminals. The letterforms are compact and modular, with pronounced rectangular serifs and frequent interior counters that read like cut-outs, especially in rounded characters. Curves are minimized or squared-off, and joins stay rigid, giving the set a pixel-adjacent, engineered feel. Spacing appears fairly even and sturdy, supporting dense setting while keeping counters open enough for legibility at display sizes.
This font is well suited to headlines and short blocks of copy where its squared slabs and rigid geometry can carry the visual identity. It works especially well for posters, packaging, labels, and signage that benefit from an industrial or retro-technical tone, as well as logo marks that want a constructed, modular look.
The overall tone is rugged and mechanical, evoking industrial labeling, early digital display aesthetics, and arcade-era graphics. Its hard-edged geometry feels purposeful and no-nonsense, with a nostalgic technical character that reads confident and workmanlike.
The design appears intended to translate slab-serif authority into a simplified, grid-like language, prioritizing uniform stroke logic and squared counters for a manufactured, display-oriented voice. It aims for high impact and stylistic cohesion across letters and figures rather than calligraphic nuance.
The all-caps have a strong, poster-like presence, while the lowercase retains the same rectilinear construction, producing a consistent, systematized rhythm across mixed-case text. Numerals follow the same squared framework, matching the capitals in weight and presence for cohesive titling and signage-style composition.