Slab Square Nime 2 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, packaging, logotypes, playful, vintage, quirky, folksy, western, retro appeal, handmade feel, high impact, novelty display, signage style, chunky, blocky, irregular, soft-cornered, ink-trap.
A heavy, slab-serif display face with compact proportions and a noticeably uneven, hand-cut rhythm. Strokes are thick and generally vertical, with flat slab-like terminals that often flare or swell slightly, giving the letterforms a chiseled, poster-cut look. Counters are small and sometimes pinched, while joins and corners show subtle wobble and soft irregularity rather than strict geometry. The lowercase is squat with a sturdy presence, and the figures are bold and simple, matching the chunky, high-impact texture of the caps.
Best suited for short display settings where texture and personality are desirable—posters, headlines, storefront or event signage, packaging labels, and logo wordmarks. It can work for brief, punchy phrases in editorial or branding, but the dense strokes and quirky shapes make it less ideal for long, small-size reading.
The overall tone feels playful and nostalgic, like old circus bills, saloon signage, or hand-stamped packaging. Its friendly clumsiness and bouncy spacing read as informal and characterful rather than precise or corporate.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, attention-grabbing slab-serif voice with a handcrafted, vintage flavor. It prioritizes distinctive silhouettes and a lively, irregular rhythm to evoke traditional print and signage aesthetics.
The silhouette is intentionally inconsistent from glyph to glyph, creating a lively, handmade color in text. Distinctive bulb-like forms and occasional teardrop/ball terminals add extra personality, especially in round letters and punctuation, making the font feel more illustrative than typographic-neutral.