Solid Tydi 2 is a very bold, normal width, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, logotypes, headlines, album art, event flyers, industrial, aggressive, mechanical, retro, brutalist, maximum impact, graphic solidity, industrial tone, retro-tech flavor, faceted, blocky, chiseled, angular, octagonal.
A heavy, block-based display face built from faceted, polygonal strokes with frequent 45° corner cuts and notch-like bites. Counters are largely collapsed or minimized, producing dense silhouettes and a stencil-adjacent feel without fully separating forms. Curves are replaced by chamfered geometry, giving round letters and numerals an octagonal, stop-sign construction. Spacing appears compact and the overall color is very dark, with shapes relying on distinctive cut-ins and edge angles for differentiation.
Best suited for large-scale display applications such as posters, headlines, branding wordmarks, game/tech graphics, and punchy packaging callouts. It can work for short phrases or titles where a dense, monolithic texture is desirable, but it will feel heavy for extended reading at smaller sizes.
The font projects a tough, mechanical personality—part industrial signage, part arcade/techno attitude. Its abrupt notches and clipped corners add tension and energy, creating an assertive, confrontational tone that reads more like a graphic mark than conventional text.
The design appears intended to turn letterforms into solid, emblem-like shapes through aggressive chamfers and collapsed counters, emphasizing impact and graphic presence over fine readability. Its consistent faceting suggests a deliberate, engineered aesthetic meant to evoke machinery, hard edges, and bold signage.
Legibility depends heavily on size: the filled-in interiors and tight apertures make long passages visually dense, while the consistent chamfer language keeps the set coherent. The figures and rounded letters share the same octagonal logic, helping the alphabet feel unified even where internal detail is minimal.