Slab Contrasted Fava 5 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, logotypes, signage, western, playful, retro, chunky, posterish, impact, vintage feel, western flavor, display texture, blocky, bracketed, rounded, ink-trap, high-ink.
A heavy, compact slab-serif design with broad proportions and strongly bracketed, block-like serifs. Strokes are thick with visibly rounded joins and corners, and the counters are relatively small, giving the face a dense, high-ink footprint. Many letters show intentional interior notches and wedge-like cut-ins around joins and terminals, adding a carved, print-era texture and breaking up otherwise solid forms. The rhythm is sturdy and emphatic, with slightly uneven widths across letters that keeps the line lively rather than strictly geometric.
This font is well suited to posters, headlines, signage, and packaging where a strong, characterful slab can carry the message. It can also work for logo marks and short taglines that benefit from a vintage, Western-leaning display texture, especially when set with generous spacing and ample size.
The overall tone feels Western and retro, like classic poster and saloon-era lettering interpreted with a friendly, cartoonish warmth. Its chunky mass and decorative notching read as bold, attention-seeking, and a little mischievous, lending it a distinctive display personality.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a decorative slab-serif silhouette, combining thick strokes, bracketed slabs, and carved-in details to evoke vintage print and Western display traditions while staying approachable and bold in modern layouts.
In text, the dense color and tight apertures make it best at larger sizes where the interior cut-ins remain legible. The numerals share the same heavy, slabby construction and rounded shaping, maintaining a consistent, headline-oriented voice across the set.