Solid Guwu 7 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, branding, stickers, playful, chunky, retro, quirky, cartoonish, attention grabbing, humor, retro display, graphic impact, rounded, bulbous, soft corners, ink-trap feel, blobby.
A heavy, soft-edged display face built from chunky strokes and rounded masses, with frequent wedge-like notches and asymmetric cut-ins that create a carved, almost “scooped” silhouette. Counters are often reduced to small apertures or stylized slits, giving letters like O/Q and several lowercase forms a dense, solid look. Terminals are blunt and slightly irregular, and the overall rhythm feels hand-shaped rather than strictly geometric, with some letters showing idiosyncratic proportions and simplified joins.
Best suited to display applications such as posters, headlines, logos, packaging, and bold brand marks where the dense silhouettes can act as graphic shapes. It also works well for playful product labels, event promos, and short punchy copy where personality is more important than long-form readability.
The type conveys a bold, humorous personality—friendly and slightly mischievous—evoking classic cartoon titling and mid-century novelty lettering. Its dense interiors and exaggerated forms create a poster-like loudness that reads as fun and attention-seeking rather than formal or technical.
The design appears intended to maximize impact through solid, simplified forms and quirky cut-in details, creating a compact, dark texture with a lively, hand-carved flavor. It prioritizes distinctive silhouette and character over neutrality, aiming for memorable display typography.
Because many internal spaces are minimized or partially collapsed, texture becomes very dark and compact in continuous text, while individual words and short phrases carry strong graphic presence. The distinctive notches and apertures help differentiate similar shapes at display sizes, but the overall look is intentionally unconventional and characterful.