Solid Dylo 7 is a bold, normal width, low contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: kids, posters, packaging, stickers, headlines, playful, handmade, cartoonish, quirky, friendly, hand-lettered feel, playful impact, graphic texture, bold signage, rounded, blobby, soft terminals, monoline, chunky.
A chunky, hand-drawn display face built from thick, rounded strokes with soft, slightly uneven contours. The letterforms lean on simple geometric masses—ovals and teardrops—with frequent closed counters and compact internal spaces, giving many glyphs a solid, inked-in look. Proportions are irregular and lively: widths vary noticeably from character to character, curves dominate over straight structure, and joins feel brushlike rather than engineered. Numerals and capitals match the same swollen, simplified construction, maintaining a consistent “marker blob” rhythm across the set.
Well-suited for kids-oriented design, playful branding, poster headlines, stickers, and packaging where a bold, friendly hand-drawn presence is desired. It also works for short social graphics and title treatments that benefit from a chunky, cartoon-like silhouette.
The overall tone is cheerful and informal, with a doodled, cartoon energy that feels approachable rather than precise. Its filled-in shapes and bouncy irregularity read as playful and a bit mischievous, like hand-lettering made with a fat marker.
The design appears intended to mimic thick-marker hand lettering with simplified, rounded forms and a deliberately imperfect outline. By tightening counters and emphasizing solid shapes, it aims for maximum visual punch and a distinctive novelty texture in display settings.
Readability is best at larger sizes where the collapsed openings and tight counters don’t merge, especially in dense text. The texture is intentionally uneven, producing an expressive, handmade color that works more as a graphic element than a neutral text voice.