Slab Contrasted Wima 1 is a very bold, very wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logotypes, sports, packaging, western, poster, industrial, collegiate, confident, impact, heritage, ruggedness, authority, display, blocky, sturdy, bracketed, ink-trap, compact.
A heavy slab-serif design with broad proportions, thick rectangular strokes, and assertive bracketed slabs. The curves are generously rounded and the joins show small notches and scooped cut-ins that read like ink traps, giving the silhouettes a rugged, stamped feel. Counters are relatively compact and the overall rhythm is dense and steady, with simple, squared terminals and a strong baseline presence. Numerals and capitals appear especially monumental, built from solid blocks with minimal delicacy.
Best suited to big, high-impact settings such as posters, headline typography, brand marks, sports or collegiate-style graphics, and packaging where a strong, sturdy voice is needed. It can work for short bursts of text (pull quotes, labels, signage), but its heavy color and tight counters make it most effective in display roles.
The tone is bold and workmanlike, evoking classic American display lettering and headline typography. It feels confident and slightly nostalgic, with a frontier/heritage flavor that also fits modern sports and poster aesthetics.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum presence with a traditional slab-serif backbone, using chunky proportions and subtle ink-trap-like carving to keep the shapes crisp and distinctive at display sizes. It emphasizes bold legibility and a rugged, heritage-inflected character for attention-forward typography.
At larger sizes the small interior notches and the pronounced slabs become a defining texture; in long passages the dense color can read as forceful and attention-grabbing rather than quiet. The letterforms prioritize impact and solidity over refinement, making the face most convincing when given space to breathe.