Slab Square Opma 5 is a bold, normal width, low contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, sports branding, signage, packaging, industrial, athletic, mechanical, assertive, retro, impact, ruggedness, signage clarity, retro utility, octagonal, blocky, squared, sturdy, condensed caps.
A compact, block-built slab serif with heavy, even strokes and crisply squared geometry. Corners are consistently chamfered, producing an octagonal silhouette in rounds like C, G, O, and 0, while interior counters stay open and rectangular. Serifs are short, thick, and flat, merging into stems with minimal bracketing for a rigid, machined feel. Uppercase forms are wide and emphatic; lowercase is sturdy with a tall x-height, single-storey a, and simple, vertical rhythm. Numerals are angular and monoline in spirit, with squared bowls and cut corners that keep forms legible at larger sizes.
Best suited to display applications where a strong, structured voice is needed, such as headlines, posters, athletic identities, labels, and wayfinding-style signage. It can also work for short blocks of text at larger sizes when a dense, industrial texture is desirable.
The font conveys a tough, utilitarian tone—confident, no-nonsense, and slightly retro. Its chamfered corners and slab structure evoke athletic lettering, equipment labeling, and engineered signage, reading as robust and practical rather than delicate or literary.
The design appears intended to translate slab-serif sturdiness into a geometric, chamfered system that holds up in bold display settings. By favoring squared terminals, clipped curves, and a tall lowercase, it aims for high-impact readability with a distinctly mechanical, sporty character.
The consistent corner clipping creates strong visual cohesion across letters and figures, and the heavy slab treatment produces dark, even texture in text blocks. The punctuation and dots appear square and sturdy, matching the overall geometric system.