Slab Square Veru 1 is a light, normal width, monoline, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, signage, packaging, labels, technical, industrial, retro, utilitarian, mechanical, clarity, compactness, geometric styling, retro utility, systematized forms, squared, boxy, condensed, tall, crisp.
A tall, narrow slab-serif with monoline-like stroke behavior and a distinctly squared construction. Corners are mostly hard-edged, with rounded rectangles appearing in bowls and counters, creating a geometric, engineered feel. Serifs are blocky and flat, often extending as short horizontal slabs that read like terminals rather than calligraphic feet. The rhythm is vertical and compact, with tight interior spaces in letters like a, e, and s, and a notably upright, structured silhouette across both cases and figures.
This design works well for short headlines, posters, and signage where its tall proportions and squared detailing can create a strong vertical texture. It also suits packaging, labels, and interface-style graphics that benefit from an engineered, industrial tone and consistent numeral styling.
The overall tone feels technical and industrial, with a retro signage and typewriter-adjacent crispness. Its disciplined geometry and squared terminals give it a practical, no-nonsense personality that can also read as vintage-modern when scaled up.
The font appears designed to deliver a clean, compact slab-serif voice with a geometric, square-influenced construction. Its emphasis on verticality, flat terminals, and rounded-rect counters suggests an intention to balance retro utility with modern crispness for display and branding contexts.
Uppercase forms lean toward simplified, architectural shapes (notably the squared C/G and the rounded-rectangle O/Q), while lowercase maintains the same narrow, constructed logic with minimal modulation. Numerals follow the same tall proportions and squared curves, supporting a consistent, system-like texture in text.