Slab Contrasted Nara 5 is a bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, signage, packaging, logos, retro, industrial, assertive, playful, display, graphic impact, retro styling, industrial texture, distinct identity, bracketless, blocky, ink-trap-like, cut-in, geometric.
A heavy, block-built slab serif with compact counters and prominent rectangular serifs. The design emphasizes strong horizontals, with distinctive cut-in notches and stencil-like gaps that interrupt stems and bowls, creating a segmented rhythm across the alphabet. Curves are broad and simplified, while joins and terminals stay crisp and squared, giving the face a machined, constructed feel. Proportions are generally wide, with sturdy capitals and a lowercase that reads clearly at display sizes despite the internal interruptions.
Best suited to headlines, posters, and branding where its segmented slabs and chunky forms can be appreciated at larger sizes. It can work well for signage and packaging that benefits from a robust, retro-industrial presence and strong black-and-white contrast.
The overall tone is bold and attention-seeking, mixing an industrial, engineered voice with a slightly playful novelty from the recurring notches and banded shapes. It evokes retro signage and headline typography where graphic impact matters more than quiet neutrality.
The design appears intended as an expressive slab serif that merges classic display heft with a constructed, cut-out motif. Its consistent notching suggests a deliberate strategy to add texture and uniqueness while preserving familiar serif letter structures.
The repeated horizontal breaks can create strong texture in longer lines, producing a striped effect that becomes a defining stylistic feature. Round letters like O/Q and lowercase a/e show the segmentation most clearly, which increases personality but can reduce smoothness in dense text settings.