Slab Contrasted Fako 7 is a very bold, very wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, logos, packaging, western, vintage, playful, punchy, bold, attention grab, retro feel, signage voice, handmade charm, rounded, bracketed, bulbous, heavyweight, quirky.
A heavy, rounded slab-serif with soft corners, pronounced bracketed slabs, and slightly irregular, hand-cut-looking inner counters. Strokes are thick and mostly uniform, with modest contrast showing up where curves pinch and at serif joins. The letterforms feel expansive and horizontally confident, with broad bowls and chunky terminals that create a dense, poster-like color on the page. Spacing and widths vary noticeably between glyphs, adding a lively, less-mechanical rhythm in both uppercase and lowercase.
Best suited to large-scale display work where its chunky slabs and rounded details can be appreciated—posters, headlines, storefront or event signage, and bold brand marks. It can also work well on packaging and labels where a retro, folksy voice is desired, but the dense weight suggests avoiding long passages of small text.
The overall tone leans nostalgic and theatrical, evoking old posters, frontier signage, and mid-century display printing. Its chunky slabs and softened forms read friendly and humorous rather than formal, making it feel approachable while still attention-grabbing.
The design appears intended to deliver a high-impact display face with a vintage, showcard-inspired flavor—mixing sturdy slab-serif structure with softened geometry and quirky interior shaping to feel handcrafted and characterful.
Distinctive notches and wedge-like cut-ins appear in several glyphs, giving counters a carved, ink-trap-adjacent character that enhances the vintage print impression. Numerals are similarly stout and rounded, matching the alphabet’s weight and maintaining strong presence at display sizes.