Slab Contrasted Fako 2 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, branding, packaging, western, retro, poster, chunky, playful, impact, nostalgia, display, blocky, bracketed, ink-trap, rounded, compact.
A heavy, block-built slab serif with broad proportions and a sturdy, rectangular skeleton. Strokes are thick and confident with subtle internal notches and cut-ins that read like ink-traps or decorative counters, adding texture to joins and corners. Serifs are bold and integrated, with softly bracketed transitions that keep the shapes from feeling purely geometric. Overall spacing and rhythm feel display-oriented, with rounded outer curves on bowls contrasted against squared terminals and flat-sided stems.
Best suited to large sizes where its heavy slabs and interior cut-ins can be appreciated: posters, headlines, signage, badges, and bold brand marks. It also works well on packaging and labels that aim for a vintage or handcrafted sign-painting feel, but will be visually dense at small sizes due to its weight and compact interior spaces.
The font conveys a bold, showcard energy with a clear vintage, Old West–adjacent attitude. Its chunky slabs and punched-in details create a friendly toughness—part circus poster, part saloon sign—making text feel loud, confident, and a bit playful.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a nostalgic slab-serif voice, balancing rugged sign typography with softened curves and decorative ink-trap-like detailing for character and print-friendly texture.
Uppercase forms appear especially uniform and sign-ready, while lowercase maintains the same weight and slab structure for strong color in text. Numerals match the letterforms in mass and blunt terminals, reinforcing a consistent, poster-like presence across the set.