Outline Lapo 7 is a bold, wide, low contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: sports branding, team apparel, posters, headlines, logos, athletic, varsity, retro, playful, punchy, impact, team spirit, nostalgia, attention-grab, octagonal, chamfered, inline, blocky, shadowed.
A chunky, faceted display face built from squarish, octagonal letterforms with chamfered corners and heavy outer contours. The design uses an inline, hollowed construction: thick black outlines surround a lighter interior, creating a cut-out look that reads like a built-in stroke. Counters are mostly rectangular and tightly proportioned, with crisp terminals and minimal curvature. Spacing feels compact and sturdy, and the overall rhythm is driven by straight segments and consistent corner cuts across letters and numerals.
It works best for short, high-impact settings such as sports branding, team and event graphics, merch and apparel, posters, packaging callouts, and logo wordmarks. The inline hollow construction is especially effective at larger sizes where the interior cut-out remains clearly legible.
The font projects a bold, competitive tone associated with sports graphics and classic collegiate lettering. Its geometric facets and inline treatment add a lively, slightly retro flavor, giving headlines a confident, marquee-like presence.
The design appears intended to deliver a rugged, collegiate display voice with strong structure and immediate readability, using chamfered geometry and a built-in inline to add character and visual depth while keeping a consistent, block-first silhouette.
Angled corner cuts create a pseudo-3D, badge-like feel without true perspective, and the thick contour can visually fill in at smaller sizes. The uppercase set appears more uniformly modular, while lowercase introduces more idiosyncratic shapes that keep the texture energetic in continuous text.