Solid Ipge 9 is a very bold, narrow, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, streetwear, album art, stickers, headlines, graffiti, punk, cartoon, rowdy, informal, handmade feel, maximum impact, rough texture, youthful edge, brushy, blobby, chunky, jagged, high-impact.
A chunky, slanted display face with heavy, brush-like strokes and strongly irregular contours. Letterforms show compressed proportions and tight interior spaces, with many counters pinching down or disappearing into solid shapes. Terminals are uneven and sometimes angular, giving a cut-and-torn silhouette, while stroke edges wobble as if drawn quickly with a saturated marker. Spacing reads compact and dense in text, with a lively, inconsistent rhythm that emphasizes texture over precision.
Best suited for short, high-impact statements such as posters, flyers, music and event graphics, stickers, and streetwear branding. It also works well for logotypes, packaging callouts, or title treatments where a raw, hand-painted feel is desired and legibility can be secondary to attitude.
The overall tone is loud, gritty, and playful—closer to street lettering and hand-scrawled signage than to formal typography. Its inky, overfilled shapes suggest urgency and attitude, with a mischievous, rebellious energy that feels intentionally rough and unrefined.
The design appears intended to mimic fast, heavy brush or marker lettering with deliberately overfilled interiors and a rough, improvised finish. It prioritizes bold texture and personality, aiming to deliver an aggressive, urban, hand-made look in large display settings.
At smaller sizes and in longer lines, many letters visually merge due to the collapsed counters and dense black mass, making the font more effective as a graphic element than as a reading face. Numerals and capitals carry the same brushy, irregular logic, helping it maintain a consistent, expressive texture across mixed content.