Slab Square Yifa 13 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, title cards, brand marks, packaging, art deco, theatrical, vintage, dramatic, refined, display impact, deco styling, vertical emphasis, signage voice, condensed, high-waisted, bracketed slabs, ink-trap feel, sharp crotches.
A sharply condensed display serif with long vertical stems and compact, high-set counters that emphasize height and rhythm. Slab-like serifs are crisp and mostly squared off, with subtle shaping at joins that creates a slightly chiseled, ink-trap-like look in tight interior corners. Curves are narrow and controlled, producing small bowls and pointed transitions in letters like B, R, S, and g, while straight strokes dominate for a poster-like, architectural texture. Numerals and capitals maintain the same tall, compressed proportions, giving lines of text a strong vertical cadence and a tightly packed word silhouette.
Best suited to display applications such as headlines, posters, title treatments, and branding where a tall, compressed voice is desirable. It can work well for packaging, signage, and editorial feature headings that benefit from a dramatic vertical rhythm, especially when set with generous tracking or in short phrases.
The overall tone feels Art Deco–leaning and stage-ready, balancing elegance with intensity. Its narrow, towering forms read as glamorous and slightly ominous, evoking classic signage, film titles, and stylized editorial headlines. The crisp slabs and tightly tucked counters add a sense of precision and drama rather than casual warmth.
The design appears intended to deliver a high-impact condensed serif for attention-grabbing typography, combining squared slab terminals with an Art Deco–influenced, architectural structure. Its compact counters and sculpted joins prioritize distinctive texture and stylized presence over extended reading comfort.
In continuous text the narrow set and high internal structure create dense word shapes, so spacing and size become important for clarity. The design’s distinctive interior corners and compact apertures are most striking at display sizes, where the sculpted joins and squared terminals read cleanly.