Solid Anka 9 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, kids, comics, playful, quirky, handmade, cartoon, wacky, expressiveness, humor, handmade feel, high impact, distinctive silhouette, blobby, chunky, organic, irregular, soft-edged.
A heavy, rounded display face with irregular, hand-cut contours and a noticeably uneven rhythm from letter to letter. Strokes are thick and soft-edged, with simplified construction and frequent interior counters that pinch down or collapse into teardrop-like apertures. Proportions vary widely—some glyphs feel compact and blocky while others stretch or narrow—creating a bouncy baseline texture and a deliberately inconsistent color. Terminals and joins tend to be blunt and swollen, and curves dominate over straight geometry even in typically linear forms.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, headlines, packaging callouts, and event or party graphics. It can also work well for children’s materials and comic or game-adjacent branding where a goofy, handmade voice is desirable; longer passages will be most comfortable at larger sizes with generous spacing.
The overall tone is mischievous and lighthearted, leaning into a cartoonish, doodled personality. Its lumpy silhouettes and partially closed counters give it a slightly surreal, offbeat character that reads as humorous rather than refined.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum personality through simplified, blobby forms and intentionally imperfect contours, prioritizing expressive silhouette over typographic regularity. Collapsed or minimal counters and variable proportions suggest a focus on bold, icon-like readability and a distinctly unconventional voice.
The dense shapes and reduced counters increase visual impact but can make small sizes and tight spacing feel crowded. Numerals follow the same playful, irregular logic, and punctuation (as seen in the sample) appears heavy and attention-grabbing, matching the letterforms’ chunky texture.