Slab Contrasted Ohpi 8 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, italic, tall x-height font visually similar to 'Lapoya' by Cuchi, qué tipo (names referenced only for comparison).
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, packaging, sports, retro, western, athletic, playful, punchy, impact, display, nostalgia, motion, branding, bracketed, rounded, chunky, jaunty, compact.
A heavy, right-leaning slab serif with broad proportions and a compact rhythm. Strokes are thick with visibly scooped and notched joins, and the slab terminals are chunky and bracketed, often forming angled “cuts” that create a lively, carved look. Counters are relatively tight and rounded, giving the lowercase a dense, energetic texture, while capitals read as solid blocks with pronounced slabs. Numerals follow the same robust, sculpted treatment, with curvy forms and strong horizontal emphasis.
Best suited for display settings where bold personality is an asset: posters, headlines, product packaging, event graphics, and logo wordmarks. It can also work for sports or team-style branding and retro-themed signage, where its chunky slabs and italic energy read clearly at larger sizes.
The overall tone feels retro and showy, mixing a frontier poster swagger with a sporty, headline-ready punch. Its carved details and emphatic slabs add a playful bravado that reads as confident, loud, and slightly nostalgic rather than formal or restrained.
The letterforms appear designed to deliver maximum impact with a distinctive, carved slab-serif flavor. The emphasis is on eye-catching shapes, strong silhouettes, and a lively italic stance that conveys motion and attitude in short-to-medium bursts of text.
The design relies on distinctive internal notches and wedge-like slab shapes that create spark and motion, especially in diagonals and bowls. In longer lines, the dense weight and compact counters produce a strong dark color, making the face most effective when given breathing room in tracking and line spacing.