Slab Contrasted Novo 2 is a very bold, normal width, high contrast, italic, tall x-height font visually similar to 'Pason' by The Native Saint Club (names referenced only for comparison).
Keywords: sports branding, team apparel, gaming titles, posters, headlines, sporty, futuristic, aggressive, techy, dynamic, impact, speed, tech feel, branding, slanted, stencil-like, segmented, chunky, rounded corners.
A heavy, right-slanted display face with compact proportions and a tall lowercase that keeps the texture dense. Forms are built from broad, angular slabs and softened corners, with pronounced internal cut-ins that create segmented, stencil-like counters and mid-stroke breaks. The glyphs show a strong forward lean and a rhythmic pattern of notches across the set, producing a mechanical, engineered feel. Round letters like O/C/G are squarish and tightly enclosed, while diagonals (V/W/Y/Z) are sharply chiseled and maintain the same cutaway motif for consistency.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as headlines, posters, esports and gaming titles, sports branding, and bold packaging accents. It can also work for logos and badges where the segmented details can be appreciated; for longer passages, generous size and spacing help preserve clarity.
The overall tone is fast, forceful, and contemporary, evoking motorsport graphics, sci‑fi interfaces, and action-forward branding. The repeated slashes and breaks read as speed lines, giving the font a charged, competitive energy while still feeling controlled and industrial.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, speed-driven voice by combining a forward slant with industrial cutaway detailing and sturdy slab terminals. The consistent segmentation across characters suggests a deliberate system aimed at creating a distinctive, instantly recognizable texture in display contexts.
The distinctive mid-stroke cutouts reduce solid mass and add visual motion, but they also introduce busy interior shapes that can fill in at small sizes or on low-resolution outputs. Numerals follow the same segmented logic and feel suited to scoreboard-like emphasis, with the set maintaining a cohesive, branded look across cases.