Solid Powe 1 is a very bold, narrow, low contrast, reverse italic, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, album art, packaging, rowdy, hand-cut, industrial, cartoonish, rebellious, maximum impact, diy texture, graphic density, rough character, chunky, chiseled, jagged, lopsided, asymmetric.
A dense, heavy display face built from swollen, blocky silhouettes with irregular, cut-away edges. Counters and interior apertures are largely collapsed, leaving letters as near-solid masses with only small notches and occasional bite-like voids. The outlines mix rounded bulges with abrupt angular nicks, creating a hand-cut, stamped, or carved feel. Spacing and sidebearings read uneven by design, with a lively, slightly tilted rhythm that makes words feel compact and turbulent in texture.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings such as poster headlines, event graphics, logo marks, merchandise, and packaging where a rough, handmade voice is desirable. It performs well when given room—large sizes, extra letterspacing, or minimal surrounding detail—to preserve character recognition while keeping its strong, graphic punch.
The tone is loud and mischievous, with a DIY, punk-ish energy that suggests stickers, stencils, and rough signage. Its chunky, imperfect shapes feel playful yet aggressive, evoking comic titling and gritty street graphics rather than refined typography.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum visual weight with a deliberately irregular, hand-hewn silhouette, turning letterforms into bold shapes that read as a graphic texture. By collapsing counters and adding cut-like notches, it emphasizes attitude and immediacy over conventional legibility.
At text sizes the solid forms merge into bold blobs, so clarity relies on scale and generous tracking. The numerals follow the same collapsed-counter approach, prioritizing impact over precision, and the overall texture becomes a strong black band when set in lines.