Slab Square Afkub 11 is a regular weight, very narrow, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, packaging, logotypes, industrial, condensed, art deco, poster, space saving, display impact, geometric styling, rectilinear, angular, crisp, compact, monolinear.
A highly condensed, rectilinear slab serif with a tall, compact silhouette and crisp, squared-off terminals. Strokes stay largely even, with minimal modulation and tight internal counters that emphasize a vertical, architectural rhythm. Corners are predominantly sharp with small chamfer-like joins in places, and the serifs read as blocky, integrated feet rather than delicate brackets. Uppercase and lowercase share a consistent narrow set and disciplined spacing, producing a strong, columnar texture in lines of text.
Best suited to display settings where a condensed footprint is helpful: posters, mastheads, labels, wayfinding, and packaging panels with limited horizontal space. It can also work for branding and logotype work that benefits from a tall, engineered look, while longer body copy may feel dense due to the narrow counters and compressed rhythm.
The overall tone feels industrial and architectural, with a vintage display flavor reminiscent of early 20th‑century signage and streamlined decorative lettering. Its compressed proportions and hard edges create a assertive, no-nonsense voice that reads as engineered and purposeful rather than friendly or casual.
The design appears aimed at delivering a space-saving condensed slab with a strong vertical cadence and a distinctly geometric, sign-painterly sharpness. Its consistent stroke weight and squared terminals suggest an intention to be bold in silhouette and highly legible at larger sizes, especially in titles and signage contexts.
The glyph set shown maintains consistent vertical stress and a rigid grid-like logic, which helps it hold together in headlines and short phrases. The numerals mirror the same narrow construction and squared terminals, matching the uppercase in height and presence for cohesive titling and numbering.