Slab Contrasted Lyvu 17 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, logotypes, packaging, industrial, western, retro, playful, chunky, impact, display, vintage feel, branding, blocky, squarish, bracketed, notched, high-ink.
A heavy, block-constructed slab serif with squared contours, tight counters, and compact internal apertures. Strokes are mostly rectilinear with softened corners and prominent, rectangular slabs that often read as integrated “caps” on terminals rather than delicate serifs. Several glyphs show deliberate step-ins/notches and inset cutouts that create a stamped, modular rhythm; spacing and letter widths vary noticeably, reinforcing a chunky, display-driven texture. Numerals and capitals share the same dense footprint, and the lowercase maintains strong presence with a high, sturdy x-height and short extenders.
Best suited for display applications such as posters, headlines, storefront-style signage, and branding marks that need immediate impact. It can also work for packaging or labels where a bold, vintage-industrial voice is desired, especially at larger sizes and with generous tracking.
The overall tone is bold and attention-grabbing, with a rugged, poster-like confidence. Its notched, slabbed shapes evoke vintage signage and industrial printing, while the exaggerated mass and playful cut-ins keep it from feeling formal or bookish.
The design appears intended to deliver a distinctive, high-impact slab voice through modular geometry, compact counters, and characteristic notches, prioritizing recognizability and texture over neutral readability in long passages.
At text sizes the tight counters and thick joins can visually fill in, so the design reads best when given room to breathe. The distinctive interior cutouts and stepped terminals create strong character, especially in words with repeated verticals and corners.