Solid Bofa 9 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, branding, album covers, quirky, whimsical, retro, playful, handmade, display personality, retro charm, handmade feel, graphic impact, soft corners, rounded terminals, monolinear, open apertures, loose spacing.
This typeface uses largely monolinear strokes with gently tapered joins and rounded, soft terminals that keep the forms friendly rather than rigid. Capitals are simple and geometric in construction, while the lowercase introduces more idiosyncratic shapes (notably in letters like a, e, g, and y), giving the texture an intentionally uneven rhythm. Counters are generally compact and some interior spaces feel reduced or simplified, which contributes to a bold, graphic read at display sizes. Overall proportions lean toward a low x-height with relatively tall ascenders and generous sidebearings, creating an airy, irregular cadence across words.
Best suited to headlines and short display copy where its quirky texture and simplified interiors can read as intentional character. It can work well for branding, packaging, and poster-style layouts that benefit from a playful, retro-leaning voice, especially when set at medium-to-large sizes.
The overall tone feels playful and slightly offbeat, like a mid-century sign or a casual hand-cut lettering interpretation translated into a digital font. Its friendly curves and quirky lowercase details give it an informal, characterful voice that reads as fun rather than formal.
The design appears intended to evoke an informal, handcrafted charm while staying broadly legible, using softened geometry and deliberately irregular lowercase forms to create a distinctive, graphic personality.
The numerals and capitals remain fairly restrained, while the lowercase carries most of the personality, so mixed-case settings show the strongest “novelty” flavor. In longer lines the uneven letterforms and spacious spacing create a lively, bouncy color rather than a smooth text gray.