Slab Unbracketed Tuku 6 is a very light, normal width, monoline, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, packaging, editorial display, retro, technical, architectural, precise, airy, modernist display, drafting feel, distinctive branding, geometric clarity, lightweight elegance, squared, rounded corners, open counters, wireframe, angular.
A very thin, monoline italic design with squared, softly rounded-corner curves and a consistent, wire-like stroke. Forms lean forward with a measured, mechanical rhythm, combining flat terminals and small slab-like feet on several letters with rectangular bowls and open counters. Proportions are relatively tall and narrow, with simplified constructions—single-storey a and g, a compact e, and a high-contrast-of-shape feel created more by geometry than by stroke modulation. Numerals echo the same rounded-rectangle logic, especially in 0, 6, 8, and 9, giving the set a cohesive, engineered texture.
Best suited to display sizes where the extremely light strokes and geometric details can stay crisp—posters, magazine headlines, branding wordmarks, and packaging with a technical or vintage-modern theme. It can also work for short UI labels or titling where a minimal, engineered voice is desired, but long text will benefit from ample size and contrast against the background.
The overall tone feels retro-futurist and technical—like mid-century drafting, instrumentation, or modernist display lettering rendered in a lightweight outline. Its forward slant and squared curves add a sense of motion and precision, reading clean and controlled rather than casual or expressive.
The design appears intended to merge slab-serif cues with a streamlined, geometric italic construction, producing a distinctive display face that feels drafted and modernist. Its consistent monoline stroke and squared curves prioritize clarity of silhouette and stylistic coherence across letters and numerals.
The italic angle is consistent across uppercase, lowercase, and figures, and the spacing appears generous enough to keep the thin strokes from clogging in continuous text. Several glyphs favor straight-sided bowls and corners over fully round curves, which reinforces the architectural, constructed character.