Slab Square Yizo 2 is a bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logotypes, packaging, game ui, techno, industrial, retro, futuristic, assertive, impact, tech styling, modular display, signage, square serif, angular, boxy, modular, ink-trap hints.
A sharply squared, slab-serif display face with blocky geometry and emphatic horizontal caps and feet. Strokes are mostly straight and orthogonal, with occasional diagonal joins (notably in K, V, W, X, Y) that stay crisp and mechanical. The design shows pronounced contrast between dominant heavy stems/bars and small interior apertures, producing compact counters in letters like A, B, D, O, P, and R. Many joins and corners feature tiny notches and cut-ins that read like subtle ink-trap detailing, helping separate strokes where they meet and keeping corners from clogging visually. Proportions vary across the set, giving a lively rhythm while maintaining a consistent squared construction and firm baseline presence.
This font suits bold headlines, poster titles, and logo wordmarks where a structured, geometric voice is desired. It also works well for packaging, tech-themed branding, and game or interface titling where squared forms and strong serifs reinforce an engineered, industrial feel.
The overall tone is technical and hard-edged, evoking digital-era signage, arcade and sci‑fi titling, and industrial labeling. Its angular silhouettes and boxed counters feel precise and engineered, with an assertive, slightly retro-futurist character that reads confidently at larger sizes.
The design appears intended to merge slab-serif authority with a square, modular construction, prioritizing striking silhouettes and a mechanical rhythm over text-face neutrality. The small corner cut-ins suggest an effort to preserve clarity at heavy joins while maintaining a rigid, rectilinear aesthetic.
The lowercase echoes the uppercase’s modular construction, with single-storey forms and squared bowls that keep the texture uniform. Numerals are similarly rectilinear and geometric, aligning well with the alphabet for display settings. Tight internal spaces and strong horizontals make the face most comfortable when given adequate size and breathing room.