Slab Contrasted Egvu 6 is a very bold, wide, high contrast, italic, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, sports branding, packaging, logos, retro, playful, punchy, sporty, showy, attention grabbing, retro display, textured impact, dynamic slant, slab serif, oblique, blocky, bracketless, ink trap.
A heavy, oblique slab-serif design with compact internal counters and a strong forward-leaning rhythm. Stems are thick and assertive, with slabs that read as mostly bracketless and sharply cut, giving the forms a blocky, poster-ready silhouette. Many joins and corners show distinctive notched cut-ins that create a carved, stencil-like texture and help open tight interior spaces. Round letters stay broad and weighty, while straight-sided letters emphasize squared terminals and flat feet, producing a dense, high-impact color on the page.
Best suited for display applications where impact matters: posters, headlines, badges, and short slogans. The chunky slab structure and built-in texture also work well for sports or entertainment branding, packaging titles, and logo wordmarks where a retro, high-energy feel is desired.
The overall tone is bold and extroverted, with a distinctly retro display attitude. The angular cut-ins and chunky slabs add a playful, slightly rugged edge that feels energetic and attention-seeking rather than refined.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum presence with a vintage, blocky slab-serif voice, combining an oblique stance for motion with deliberate carved notches for character and texture. It prioritizes bold word shapes and distinctive detailing for use at larger sizes.
The notched details appear consistently across capitals, lowercase, and numerals, acting as a defining motif that adds texture at large sizes but can visually thicken word shapes in longer text. The oblique slant is strong enough to create motion, and the tight counters and heavy joins make spacing and line breaks feel compact and forceful.