Solid Soma 1 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, packaging, album art, retro, geometric, playful, futuristic, graphic, impact, branding, retro mood, geometric experiment, stencil solidity, stencil-like, modular, rounded, angular, chunky.
A heavy, geometric display face built from modular blocks and arcs, mixing broad rectangular stems with large circular segments and occasional sharp triangular cuts. Counters are largely collapsed into solid forms, with readability coming from silhouette carving and notch details rather than interior space. Curves are clean and near-perfectly circular, while corners toggle between blunt right angles and crisp wedges, creating a rhythmic, constructed feel. Letterfit appears tight and the overall texture is dense, producing strong, poster-like color on the page.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, headlines, titles, and brand marks where the solid silhouettes can read at a glance. It can also work well for packaging and event graphics that benefit from a strong, graphic stamp. For extended reading, larger sizes and generous line spacing help preserve character recognition.
The tone reads bold and playful with a distinctly retro-futurist flavor—part Art Deco, part arcade-era geometry. Its solid shapes and stylized cut-ins give it a toy-block, logo-forward personality that feels energetic, quirky, and unapologetically graphic.
The design appears intended to create a maximal, solid presence using simplified, geometric construction and reduced counterspace, prioritizing distinctive silhouettes and repetition of modular shapes. It aims for immediate visual identity and strong reproduction in bold display contexts where decorative structure matters more than text-like transparency.
The uppercase set looks highly stylized and icon-like, while the lowercase retains the same modular logic, emphasizing silhouette recognition over traditional counterforms. The design relies on repeated motifs—quarter-circles, half-circles, and stepped notches—which helps maintain cohesion across letters and numerals. In longer text the dense massing can become visually insistent, so spacing and size will strongly affect legibility.