Solid Ussy 1 is a bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album covers, event flyers, packaging, quirky, mischievous, retro, handmade, playful, graphic impact, novelty voice, retro flavor, hand-cut feel, blobby, inked, chiseled, uneven, bulbous.
A heavy display face built from compact, mostly closed silhouettes, where counters frequently collapse into solid mass. Strokes are thick and weighty with noticeable contrast and a hand-cut, slightly distressed edge quality, creating bumps, nicks, and occasional flattened terminals. Rounds are exaggerated and lumpy, while joins can pinch or flare, producing an irregular rhythm across the alphabet. Proportions are inconsistent by design—some letters are broad and squat, others narrow with tall stems—reinforcing a collage-like, cutout feel in both uppercase and lowercase.
Best suited to posters, bold headlines, and short display lines where a loud, irregular texture is desirable. It can add character to album artwork, event flyers, and packaging that benefits from a quirky, cutout aesthetic, but is less appropriate for long-form reading or small UI text due to its dense, counterless forms.
The overall tone is playful and a bit mischievous, like inked stamps or rough-cut poster letters. Its lopsided geometry and filled-in interiors read as intentionally unruly, giving it a retro novelty energy that feels theatrical and attention-seeking rather than refined.
The design appears intended to prioritize graphic impact and a distinctive silhouette over conventional readability. By collapsing interior openings and embracing uneven, hand-made contours, it aims to deliver a striking novelty voice for expressive display typography.
Legibility is strongest at large sizes where the silhouette character comes through; at smaller sizes, the collapsed counters and rough internal edges can make letters and numerals feel more similar. The sample text shows strong texture in paragraphs, with dark spots forming where rounded glyphs become near-circles.