Slab Square Afdiv 2 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, signage, branding, labels, industrial, western, authoritative, vintage, mechanical, impact, compact fit, retro display, blocky, condensed, rectilinear, bracketless, angular.
A condensed, rectilinear slab-serif design with tall proportions and tight sidebearings. Strokes stay mostly uniform with crisp, square terminals and unbracketed slab serifs that read like stamped blocks. Counters are narrow and often squared-off, with squared shoulders and compact apertures that create a dense vertical rhythm. The overall texture is dark and steady, with small interior spaces and a slightly rugged, print-like solidity.
Best suited to display sizes where its condensed slabs and squared counters can read clearly—posters, signage, labels, packaging, and bold branding wordmarks. It can also work for short subheads or pull quotes when a compact, punchy look is desired, though longer passages will appear dense due to the tight internal spaces.
The font conveys a utilitarian, old-style display tone that mixes frontier poster energy with an industrial, sign-paint/woodtype feel. Its compact width and hard corners create an assertive, no-nonsense voice suited to headlines that need to feel sturdy and emphatic.
Likely designed to deliver a compact, high-impact slab-serif voice reminiscent of vintage woodtype and stamped lettering. The emphasis is on sturdy geometry, tight fit, and consistent, block-like serifs for strong presence in headline settings.
The narrow construction makes letters pack tightly in words, producing strong vertical striping in continuous text. Squared punctuation and numerals match the same blocky logic, reinforcing a consistent, engineered character across the set.