Solid Idty 7 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, zines, handmade, quirky, playful, grungy, naïve, handmade texture, informal display, diy aesthetic, inked look, brushy, blobby, wobbly, rough-edged, inked.
A hand-drawn, all-caps/lowercase display face with irregular, ink-heavy strokes and noticeably uneven contours. Many glyphs alternate between open, single-stroke outlines (especially round forms) and dense, filled shapes where counters partially collapse into solid blobs, creating a mixed light/dark texture across words. Curves are lumpy rather than geometric, terminals are blunt, and straight strokes have slight waviness, suggesting a brush or marker pressed into paper. Spacing and glyph widths vary, with some letters feeling compact and others more open, adding a deliberately unpolished rhythm.
Best used at display sizes where the rough edges and counter-collapsing details remain clear. It works well for posters, event promos, album/mixtape artwork, playful packaging, and editorial spots that benefit from a handmade, unconventional voice. For long passages or small UI text, the uneven darkness and irregular letterforms may reduce clarity compared with more regular display faces.
The overall tone is playful and offbeat, with a scrappy DIY energy that reads as informal and expressive rather than refined. Its shifting texture—sometimes airy, sometimes inky—adds a mischievous, zine-like personality suited to attention-grabbing statements.
The design appears intended to emulate quick brush lettering and inked stamps, prioritizing personality and texture over typographic neutrality. By mixing outline-like letters with heavier, filled shapes, it aims to create a lively, unpredictable color on the page that feels deliberately imperfect and human-made.
In running text the irregular alternation of solid and open forms becomes a prominent stylistic feature, producing a speckled, high-contrast word silhouette. Numerals match the same hand-rendered character, ranging from outline-style figures to heavier, filled forms, reinforcing the intentionally inconsistent, handcrafted feel.