Slab Contrasted Egvu 7 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, sports branding, packaging, signage, retro, athletic, western, punchy, confident, impact, motion, vintage flavor, display emphasis, brand voice, blocky, chunky, bracketed, ink-trap, notched.
A heavy, forward-leaning slab display face built from chunky, compact shapes and broad, rectangular terminals. Strokes show clear modulation, with thick main masses and sharpened internal joins that create small notch-like cut-ins at corners and junctions. Counters are relatively tight and often rounded, while the outer silhouette stays assertive and geometric, giving letters a chiseled, machined look. The italic slant is consistent across caps, lowercase, and numerals, and the overall spacing favors dense, poster-like color.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as headlines, event posters, team or athletic branding, labels, and bold signage where its dense color and italic motion can do the work. It can also serve as a strong accent font in editorial or campaign layouts when paired with a calmer text face.
The tone is bold and extroverted, evoking vintage sports lettering and old Western or carnival-era display type. Its aggressive slant and cut-in details add speed and attitude, making text feel energetic and competitive rather than refined or quiet.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum presence with a vintage-leaning, athletic display voice—combining sturdy slab terminals, a pronounced slant, and carved-in corner details to keep large shapes lively and distinctive.
Caps are especially squat and impactful, with prominent slab terminals that read well at large sizes. The notched joins and compressed apertures can fill in at small sizes, so the design benefits from generous size and breathing room when used in longer lines.