Solid Atlo 2 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, game titles, handmade, rustic, playful, quirky, grunge, handmade feel, ink texture, expressive display, bold silhouettes, brushy, blobby, inked, rough, organic.
A rough, hand-rendered display face with uneven stroke edges and subtly shifting letter widths that create a lively, irregular rhythm. Many counters are partially closed or fully collapsed into solid forms, giving bowls and apertures a blobby, ink-heavy look. Strokes feel brushy and pressure-driven, with occasional sharp terminals and slight right-leaning movement that reads as casually italic. Overall proportions are fairly upright and readable, but the silhouette texture and filled interiors dominate the texture of words.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, title cards, album art, packaging accents, and themed event graphics where texture is an asset. It can work for brief subheads or pull quotes when ample size and spacing are available, but the heavy, collapsed interiors make long passages and small sizes less comfortable to read.
The font conveys a handmade, mischievous tone—like quick brush lettering stamped into wet ink. Its irregularity and dark, clogged interiors make it feel gritty and playful at the same time, suitable for expressive, characterful typography rather than refined communication.
The design appears intended to mimic fast, analog brush/ink lettering with deliberate imperfections and occasional counter collapse to amplify personality and visual punch. It prioritizes expressive texture and a bold, inky word image over typographic neutrality.
Word shapes become notably darker where rounded letters appear, since several bowls (such as in O/Q-like forms) read as nearly solid. This creates strong spot-color variation across lines of text, which is visually distinctive but can reduce clarity at smaller sizes.