Solid Hibo 13 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, album art, grunge, playful, chaotic, handmade, comic, attention-grab, handmade feel, distressed impact, humor, horror flair, rough-edged, blobby, chunky, inked, ragged.
A chunky, all-caps-and-lowercase display face built from dense, irregular silhouettes. Strokes feel hand-formed and brushy, with torn-looking edges, uneven terminals, and frequent little nicks and flats that create a jittery outline rhythm. Counters are often reduced to small slits or partially collapsed shapes, producing heavy interior color and occasional near-solid forms. Proportions are generally broad with variable glyph widths; rounds are swollen and soft while verticals stay thick and minimally tapered, giving the set a consistent, stamp-like weight.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings where texture and attitude matter more than fine legibility—posters, event flyers, title cards, stickers, packaging callouts, and bold logo wordmarks. It performs strongest at larger sizes where the rough perimeter and collapsed counters read as intentional texture rather than noise.
The font reads loud and mischievous, with a scruffy DIY energy that suggests messiness on purpose. Its blobby forms and distressed edges push it toward comic, spooky, and rebellious tones rather than refined typography. The overall color is dense and punchy, making it feel suited to humorous shock, B-movie theatrics, or gritty street-poster attitude.
The design appears intended to deliver a heavy, inked look with intentionally imperfect contours—like painted letters, a distressed stamp, or cut-out shapes pressed into solid black. By minimizing counters and emphasizing silhouette variety, it prioritizes bold presence and character over neutral readability.
Spacing and fit appear intentionally uneven, and the irregular edge texture becomes a defining feature at headline sizes. Small punctuation-like details in some counters and the reduced apertures can make similar shapes rely more on overall silhouette recognition than on interior clarity.