Outline Liry 1 is a bold, wide, low contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: team branding, sportswear, posters, headlines, logos, varsity, retro, sporty, bold, playful, athletic styling, display impact, graphic outline, retro homage, octagonal, chamfered, inline, outlined, blocky.
A blocky, geometric display face built from straight strokes and chamfered corners, with a consistent outer outline and an inset inline that creates a double-stroked contour effect. Curves are largely rationalized into octagonal forms (notably in bowls and counters), giving rounds a faceted rhythm. Stems and horizontals keep uniform thickness, terminals are squared, and the overall silhouette feels compact and engineered. Lowercase forms follow the same constructed logic with simplified joins and sturdy, rectangular counters, while figures are similarly angular and uniform in visual weight.
Well-suited for display applications where a strong, graphic presence is desired—sports and team branding, apparel graphics, posters, event titles, packaging callouts, and logo wordmarks. It performs best in short headlines or large-format settings that can showcase the inline outline detailing.
The outlined, inline construction and chamfered geometry evoke classic athletic lettering, scoreboard graphics, and retro arcade or team-identity aesthetics. Its crisp, faceted rounds and sturdy stance read as confident and energetic, with a playful, emblematic tone that leans toward bold branding rather than neutral text.
The design appears intended to translate the vocabulary of varsity and athletic block lettering into a clean outline-with-inline system, emphasizing a constructed, faceted geometry for impact and consistency across letters and numbers.
The double-contour detail becomes most apparent at larger sizes, where the inset line reads as a deliberate graphic accent; at smaller sizes it may merge visually into a darker texture. Angular bowls and tight interior spaces produce a strong, compact color that suits high-contrast applications.