Solid Retu 9 is a very bold, wide, low contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, album covers, playful, chunky, retro, cartoon, punchy, attention grabbing, graphic texture, quirky display, retro flavor, logo friendly, blocky, rounded, stencil-like, notched, compact spacing.
A heavy, all-caps-forward display design built from dense, geometric silhouettes. Letterforms alternate between hard rectangular cuts and soft, circular bowls, with frequent notches, bites, and stepped edges that make counters feel reduced or implied rather than fully open. Curves are broadly rounded and nearly monoline in feel, while joins and terminals often end in blunt slabs; the overall rhythm is irregular but controlled, with intentionally quirky detailing repeated across the set. The lowercase mirrors the uppercase’s bulk and simplified interiors, and numerals follow the same solid, cutout-driven construction for a uniform, poster-ready color on the page.
Best suited to short display settings such as posters, event graphics, titles, and brand marks where the chunky silhouettes and quirky cut-ins can carry the message. It also works well for packaging and playful campaigns where a bold, graphic texture is desirable, but it’s less appropriate for small UI text or long reading.
The tone is bold and mischievous, reading as vintage-meets-toybox: friendly at a glance, but with an edgy, cut-paper or stencil-like character. Its exaggerated weight and carved-in details create a punchy, attention-grabbing voice suited to fun, unconventional headlines.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact through solid, simplified forms and intentionally irregular cutout details, creating a distinctive silhouette that holds attention. It prioritizes graphic personality over conventional counter clarity, aiming for a memorable, novelty display voice.
Because many interior spaces are minimized and shapes are tightly packed, readability drops quickly at small sizes; the design works best when the silhouette can be appreciated. The distinctive notches and flattened curves create strong texture in lines of text, producing a lively, uneven cadence rather than a neutral typographic gray.