Solid Bori 1 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, children’s books, event flyers, playful, quirky, handmade, retro, kid-friendly, handmade feel, playful display, textural contrast, quirky branding, blobby, rounded, inky, soft-cornered, cartoonish.
A whimsical, hand-drawn display face with rounded terminals and uneven, marker-like stroke behavior. Many glyphs alternate between thin, wiry lines and heavy, near-solid forms, creating a spotty rhythm where counters sometimes collapse into filled shapes. Curves are generous and slightly irregular, with simplified geometry in letters like O, Q, and P and loosely constructed joins in V, W, and Y. Overall spacing and proportions feel informal and lightly inconsistent by design, emphasizing character over strict typographic regularity.
Best suited to display applications where personality is the priority: headlines, poster titles, playful packaging, and informal branding. It can work well for children’s materials, event flyers, or social graphics where the lively texture and chunky accents help build an engaging typographic voice.
The tone is playful and offbeat, with a friendly, cartoon-like presence that feels handcrafted and a little mischievous. Its mix of airy strokes and bold blobs reads as expressive and humorous, lending a casual, indie sensibility rather than a polished corporate voice.
The design appears intended to emulate an improvised, inked lettering style while adding a novelty twist through occasional fully filled counters and exaggerated rounded forms. The goal seems to be an immediately recognizable texture that feels human, humorous, and visually punchy in short lines.
The solid, counter-collapsing moments create strong visual anchors in text, but they also introduce pronounced texture that can dominate at smaller sizes. The irregular weight distribution and simplified interiors make it most comfortable when given space and used for short bursts of copy rather than dense paragraphs.