Slab Weird Uphe 2 is a very bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, signage, industrial, retro, playful, modular, quirky, standout display, systematic quirk, retro-tech feel, signage impact, blocky, stencil-like, notched, rounded corners, compact.
A compact, heavy display slab with squared, modular construction and rounded outer corners. Many glyphs show deliberate cut-ins and notches that create a stencil-like, segmented feel, producing sharp internal contrast against the otherwise solid strokes. Counters are simplified and often slot-like (notably in O/Q and several numerals), while joins and terminals favor rectangular blocks over traditional curves. Spacing appears tight and the overall rhythm is mechanical and patterned, with a consistent system of cutouts repeated across capitals, lowercase, and figures.
Best suited to display settings where the notched slabs and modular shapes can read clearly—posters, album art, event titles, packaging, and identity marks. It can also work for short signage-style messaging or tech/industrial themed graphics, especially when set with generous size and spacing.
The overall tone is bold and idiosyncratic, evoking retro-futurist signage and industrial labeling with a wink. Its unusual internal breaks and chunky slabs make it feel playful, experimental, and slightly sci‑fi, more concerned with personality than neutrality.
The design appears intended to reinterpret a slab-serif framework through a constructed, stencil-inspired system of cutouts and block terminals. The goal seems to be maximum visual impact and a distinctive texture across lines of text, trading conventional readability for a memorable, engineered display voice.
The distinctive internal notches can reduce clarity at small sizes, but they also create a strong brandable texture in words and headlines. Numerals and rounded letters (like O, Q, 8, 9) emphasize the font’s signature horizontal slot counter, reinforcing a cohesive, engineered look.