Slab Contrasted Tila 15 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, signage, branding, playful, retro, chunky, friendly, rowdy, display impact, retro flavor, friendly tone, poster texture, branding voice, soft serifs, bracketed, bouncy baseline, rounded corners, ink traps.
A heavy, wide slab-serif design with compact counters and strongly bracketed, blocky serifs. Strokes show gentle irregularity and swelling, with softened corners that keep the dense forms from feeling rigid. The rhythm is lively and slightly bouncy, as if the letters sit with small, natural-looking shifts rather than perfectly rigid geometry. Uppercase is compact and weighty, while lowercase remains sturdy and rounded, maintaining clear silhouettes even at large display sizes.
This font suits display-driven work such as posters, headlines, event graphics, packaging, and bold brand marks where a lively slab-serif texture is desired. It can also work for signage and short promotional copy, especially when you want an energetic, retro-leaning presence rather than a neutral reading tone.
The overall tone is bold and jovial, leaning into a vintage poster sensibility with a slightly mischievous, hand-cut feel. Its chunky shapes and soft, inflated details give it a welcoming, informal voice that reads as fun rather than authoritative.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a friendly, vintage-tinged slab-serif voice. It prioritizes chunky silhouettes, soft bracketing, and a slightly uneven rhythm to create character and warmth in large-scale typography.
Numerals are particularly punchy and poster-like, with thick terminals and tight apertures that emphasize mass over delicacy. The design favors strong shape identity and texture, producing a dark, attention-grabbing typographic color that works best with generous spacing and short lines.