Slab Contrasted Wiha 8 is a very bold, very wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, sports branding, signage, western, industrial, headline, retro, sturdy, impact, ruggedness, vintage display, blocky, bracketed, compact apertures, ink-trap feel, soft corners.
A heavy, tightly packed slab-serif with broad proportions and pronounced, squared-off serifs. Strokes show clear contrast for a slab style, with thick verticals and comparatively lighter joins and curves, producing crisp internal counters. Terminals are mostly flat and horizontal, and several junctions show small notches or cut-ins that create an ink-trap-like bite, especially where diagonals meet stems. The lowercase is robust and compact with a sturdy x-height and short-to-moderate extenders; bowls and counters stay relatively narrow, emphasizing dense texture in text.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, headlines, labels, and display typography where weight and presence are priorities. It can also work for bold branding, event graphics, and rugged packaging, but the dense texture suggests avoiding long passages at smaller sizes.
The overall tone is assertive and old-school, recalling workhorse printing and sign lettering. Its weight and blunt serifs project strength and authority, while the slightly carved joins add a crafted, vintage edge rather than a purely geometric feel.
This design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a rugged slab-serif voice, combining bold sign-like proportions with sharper internal carving to maintain character and differentiation at display sizes.
In continuous text the rhythm is dark and even, with limited white space inside letters and strong horizontal emphasis from the slabs. The figures are bold and straightforward, and round forms (O, C, G) read as solid, poster-ready shapes rather than delicate book faces.