Solid Desu 2 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, children’s media, packaging, headlines, comics, playful, handmade, quirky, cartoon, casual, expressiveness, handmade feel, humor, attention-grabbing, texture, blobby, rounded, wonky, chunky, organic.
A chunky, rounded display face with irregular, hand-drawn contours and a soft, blobby silhouette. Strokes swell and taper subtly with uneven terminals, creating a lively, imperfect rhythm rather than a strict geometric structure. Counters are often reduced or collapsed, and many forms read as near-solid shapes with small notches and incidental openings. Proportions vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, with narrow verticals, bouncy curves, and simplified details that prioritize silhouette over internal clarity.
Best suited for short, attention-grabbing settings such as posters, playful branding, packaging callouts, and children’s titles. It works well where personality and a hand-made feel are more important than prolonged readability, and it benefits from generous sizes and open leading to keep the solid forms legible.
The overall tone is playful and mischievous, with a casual, doodled energy that feels kid-friendly and a bit offbeat. Its soft, inky shapes suggest spontaneity and humor, leaning more toward character and texture than precision.
The design intent appears to be a characterful, hand-rendered display font that reads quickly through bold silhouettes while embracing irregularity and collapsed interior spaces for a distinctive, cartoon-like texture.
Spacing appears loose and forgiving in text, helping the dense shapes avoid clogging at larger sizes. The numerals and punctuation carry the same lumpy, improvised construction, reinforcing a consistent “marker/brush blob” personality across the set.