Solid Boby 9 is a light, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, branding, album art, gaming ui, futuristic, techno, mechanical, coded, experimental, sci‑fi styling, modular system, tech display, coded texture, industrial edge, octagonal, monoline, stencil-like, geometric, modular.
A sharply geometric display face built from straight strokes, octagonal arcs, and clipped corners. The design reads largely monoline, with frequent use of segmented outlines and occasional solid, filled counters that collapse interior space into black blocks. Curves are implied through chamfers and short facets, producing a rigid, modular rhythm. Proportions skew condensed, with tall verticals, narrow bowls, and angular joins; spacing feels intentionally tight and engineered, especially where filled shapes create heavy visual punctuation within words.
Best suited to headlines, titles, and short bursts of text where its angular construction and filled-counter accents can be appreciated. It works well for sci‑fi or tech branding, event posters, album/track art, and on-screen UI moments (scores, labels, menus) that benefit from a mechanical, encoded feel. For body copy, the tight, segmented forms and solid inserts can reduce readability at small sizes.
The overall tone is futuristic and machine-made, evoking digital instrumentation, industrial labeling, and sci‑fi interfaces. Alternation between open outlines and solid inserts gives the text a coded, signal-like texture that feels experimental and slightly cryptic.
The design appears intended to translate a faceted, octagonal construction into a coherent alphabet, mixing outline-like strokes with strategically collapsed counters to create a distinctive signature. Its systematized geometry suggests an aim toward a modular, techno display voice rather than conventional text readability.
Legibility is strongest at display sizes, where the faceted construction and filled-counter motifs read as deliberate styling rather than noise. The numerals and capitals emphasize the octagonal geometry, while lowercase forms maintain the same segmented logic, reinforcing a consistent, system-like aesthetic.