Slab Contrasted Egze 5 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, signage, logotypes, western, poster, rugged, industrial, playful, impact, wood-type feel, texture, legibility, blocky, bracketless, ink-trap cuts, notched, soft corners.
A heavy, block-built slab serif with broad proportions and compact counters. Strokes are squared off with largely unbracketed slabs, and many joins feature small triangular notches that read like ink-trap cuts, adding texture to the otherwise solid silhouette. Corners are slightly softened, and curves are stout and simplified, giving rounds (O, C, S) a chunky, almost stamped quality. Lowercase forms are sturdy and tall, with short extenders and dense spacing that produces a strong, even typographic color in lines of text.
Best suited to display settings where impact matters: posters, event titles, packaging panels, signage, and bold brand marks. It can also work for short bursts of text (pull quotes, labels, subheads) where its dense color and distinctive notched detailing remain clear.
The overall tone feels bold and emphatic, with a frontier/wood-type flavor and a punchy, show-card attitude. The notched details add a rugged, workwear character while keeping the voice lively and attention-grabbing.
The font appears designed to echo classic slab/wood-type display traditions while adding engineered, ink-trap-like cutouts to improve clarity and create a recognizable, rugged texture at large sizes.
The design’s signature is the repeated internal nicking at joins and terminals, which creates sparkle at large sizes and helps counters stay open under heavy weight. Numerals follow the same stout geometry, staying legible and sign-like rather than delicate.