Slab Square Tovo 2 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, branding, packaging, western, playful, rustic, vintage, bold, display impact, vintage feel, western flavor, handmade look, slab-serif, wedge-serif, bracketless, blocky, chunky.
A heavy, right-leaning slab-serif with chunky, chiseled contours and flat-ended strokes. The letterforms use broad, squat proportions with tight internal counters and assertive slab-like feet and caps, producing a stamped, poster-ready silhouette. Curves are simplified into faceted arcs and notched joins, giving the glyphs a slightly carved look. Spacing and rhythm feel lively and uneven in a deliberate way, with a strong emphasis on dark shapes and sturdy horizontals.
Best suited to display settings such as posters, headlines, storefront-style signage, and bold branding marks where strong silhouette and personality matter more than long-form readability. It also fits packaging or labels that aim for a nostalgic, handcrafted, or Western-leaning theme.
The overall tone reads as vintage and rustic, with a distinctly Western/rodeo poster energy. Its bold, angular construction feels spirited and informal—more theatrical than refined—suggesting handcrafted signage and old-time display typography.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a vintage slab-serif voice, using an italic slant and carved, square-ended details to evoke classic showbill and frontier signage aesthetics while remaining cohesive across caps, lowercase, and figures.
Uppercase forms are especially compact and block-forward, while lowercase maintains the same carved, slabby grammar for consistent texture. Numerals follow the same chunky, faceted logic, keeping the set cohesive and high-impact in short bursts of text.