Solid Wedy 5 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, album art, game ui, brutalist, industrial, arcade, cut-paper, comic, maximum impact, carved look, retro display, graphic texture, attention grabbing, blocky, angular, chunky, stenciled, notched.
A heavy, block-built display face with squarish proportions and aggressively simplified counters. Letterforms are constructed from broad rectangular masses with frequent triangular notches, abrupt corner cut-ins, and occasional slit-like internal highlights that read as carved or gouged mention rather than true open counters. Curves are minimized and often rendered as flattened arcs or chamfered segments, producing a distinctly mechanical silhouette. Spacing and widths vary noticeably across glyphs, creating a jagged rhythm that feels intentionally irregular while staying consistently monolinear in its overall weight impression.
Best suited to display settings where a strong silhouette and dense black presence are desirable—headlines, posters, packaging, album art, titles, and game or event graphics. It can also work for logo marks and badges where the irregular, carved-block texture becomes part of the identity.
The font projects a bold, confrontational personality with a playful edge—part industrial signage, part retro arcade. Its carved-in details and collapsed interiors give it a rugged, poster-ready punch that feels loud, graphic, and a bit mischievous.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact through chunky, cut-out geometry and deliberately irregular shaping, replacing traditional counters with sculpted nicks and slits. It aims for a distinctive, novelty display voice that remains cohesive across a full alphanumeric set.
Because many inner spaces are reduced to small cuts or mentions, the face reads best at larger sizes where the internal sculpting remains visible. The angular notches and asymmetries create strong texture in lines of text, making it more suitable for short bursts than for extended reading.