Solid Revi 8 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, logos, stickers, playful, chunky, retro, cartoon, high impact, silhouette-led, playfulness, novelty branding, rounded, soft corners, bulbous, blobby, compact spacing.
A heavy, soft-edged display face built from chunky, rounded forms with frequent flat cuts and notched corners that create a subtly chiseled silhouette. Strokes are broadly uniform and interior counters are largely collapsed, so letters read as solid shapes with only occasional small openings. The geometry leans toward circles and wide ovals in round letters, while straight-sided glyphs use blocky verticals with stepped terminals. Spacing appears tight and the overall texture is dense and dark, with simplified joins and minimal internal detail.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as headlines, posters, packaging, and logo wordmarks where the solid silhouettes can function as bold graphic elements. It also works well for playful signage, children’s materials, and themed merchandise where a chunky, cartoonish tone is desired.
The font projects a playful, toy-like energy with a slightly retro, arcade-to-cartoon feel. Its solid, blobby silhouettes give it a bold, attention-grabbing voice that reads more as graphic shapes than conventional text.
The design appears intended to maximize visual punch through solid, simplified letterforms and soft, rounded massing, prioritizing character and silhouette recognition over internal detail. The notched terminals and flattened cuts add a distinctive irregular rhythm that keeps the texture lively in display sizes.
Round characters like O and Q are especially prominent and pillowy, while diagonals in K, V, W, X, and Y are simplified into thick wedges and angular cuts. Numerals follow the same sculpted, filled-counter approach, producing strong icon-like figures with consistent visual weight.