Slab Square Lehy 11 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, packaging, labels, industrial, retro, athletic, stencil-like, posterish, impact, ruggedness, retro display, signage, boxy, blocky, squared, monolinear, bracketless.
This typeface has a compact, block-built structure with heavy, squared serifs and flat, right-angled terminals throughout. Strokes are largely uniform in weight, creating a sturdy, monoline feel, while counters and joins stay tight and geometric. The forms lean toward rectilinear construction, with stepped corners and angular curves that read as intentionally mechanical rather than smooth. Lowercase characters keep a tall, assertive stance with short extenders and minimal modulation, and the overall rhythm is dense and punchy.
This font is well suited to headlines, posters, and short emphatic text where its dense, blocky texture can carry impact. It also works well for logos, badges, labels, and packaging that benefit from an industrial or retro-athletic tone. For longer passages, it is best used sparingly or at larger sizes to preserve clarity in the tighter counters and stepped details.
The overall tone feels rugged and utilitarian, with a strong retro flavor reminiscent of printed ephemera and institutional lettering. Its squared details and emphatic slabs give it an athletic, poster-forward presence that can read as both workmanlike and playfully old-school. The crisp, chiseled shapes also introduce a subtle stencil/arcade energy, making the voice feel bold and declarative.
The design appears intended to deliver a strong, compact display voice built from squared geometry and prominent slab finishing. Its emphasis on uniform stroke weight and flat terminals suggests a goal of creating a tough, mechanical texture that reads clearly in bold applications while evoking vintage printing and signage cues.
The design’s sharp corners and compact apertures make it most effective when given a bit of breathing room in tracking and line spacing. Numerals and capitals present a consistent, sign-like solidity, and the square-ended detailing keeps texture uniform across long strings of text, producing a dark, patterned color on the page.