Inverted Kaba 2 is a very bold, very narrow, very high contrast, italic, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, stickers, album art, packaging, cutout, zine, punk, retro, comic, collage look, diy texture, attention grab, poster impact, cutout effect, slanted, condensed, stencil-like, choppy, irregular.
A tightly condensed, right-leaning display face built from solid black tiles with the letterforms appearing as crisp white cut-outs. The glyphs sit within slightly irregular, skewed rectangular blocks, creating a jittery baseline and uneven side bearings that feel intentionally hand-cut. Strokes are simplified and punchy, with sharp corners and occasional ink-trap-like notches where counters and joins open into the surrounding black. Proportions are tall and compact, with small internal counters and a consistent, poster-ready silhouette across capitals, lowercase, and numerals.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as headlines, event posters, album covers, sticker graphics, and bold packaging callouts where the cut-out tile motif can be read clearly. It can also work for badges, captions, and social graphics when used at medium-to-large sizes and with careful spacing.
The overall tone is loud, handmade, and slightly chaotic—evoking ransom-note collage, zine headlines, and DIY poster culture. The slant and block-by-block construction add motion and urgency, giving the font an energetic, rebellious character that reads as playful rather than formal.
The design appears intended to mimic cut-paper or stencil-cut lettering assembled into a collage, prioritizing attitude and recognizability over neutrality. Its skewed tiles and inverted cut-out construction emphasize immediacy and visual texture, targeting expressive display typography rather than continuous reading.
Because each character is framed by its own black block, spacing becomes part of the style: words read as a rhythmic chain of tiles, and the irregular edges add texture at larger sizes. The distinctive reverse-cut construction makes the face most effective with strong contrast against light backgrounds and generous tracking when set in longer lines.