Solid Yape 1 is a very bold, wide, very high contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, packaging, title cards, art deco, retro, futuristic, playful, geometric, display impact, decorative texture, retro styling, branding voice, silhouette focus, stencil-like, modular, faceted, sharp, compact counters.
A chunky, geometric display face built from simplified, modular forms with aggressively reduced counters. Many characters feel constructed from circles, rectangles, and wedges, with distinctive angular cut-ins and notch details that create a stencil-like rhythm and occasional inline slivers. Curves are typically near-circular and heavy, while terminals often resolve as crisp flats or triangular points, producing a faceted silhouette. Spacing and widths vary by glyph, and several letters and numerals read as solid shapes with only minimal interior separation.
Best suited for large-scale display settings such as posters, headlines, title sequences, and branding marks where its sculpted silhouettes can be appreciated. It can also add a retro-futurist accent to packaging and event graphics, but it’s less appropriate for long text or small UI sizes where the reduced counters may close up.
The overall tone is bold and theatrical, blending vintage marquee energy with a sci‑fi, poster-ready punch. Its graphic cutouts and strong silhouettes give it a playful, slightly mysterious feel—more about impact and pattern than conventional readability.
The font appears designed to maximize graphic impact through simplified geometry and signature cutout details, prioritizing a memorable, decorative texture over conventional letterform openness. It aims to evoke a stylized, era-referential look while remaining bold and highly legible at display sizes through strong outer contours.
The design relies on silhouette recognition and repeated cut motifs, which can make similar shapes (especially round letters and some numerals) feel intentionally ambiguous. The dense fill and collapsed apertures increase visual mass, so texture becomes prominent even at moderate sizes.