Slab Weird Byho 13 is a light, wide, very high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logotypes, packaging, editorial display, eccentric, theatrical, retro, ornamental, quirky, expressiveness, novelty, retro display, ornamentation, attention-grab, flared, spurred, incised, notched, high-contrast.
A decorative slab serif with extremely high stroke contrast and a deliberately engineered, segmented construction. Heavy horizontal slabs dominate, while many verticals reduce to thin hairlines that appear like braces or support struts, creating an open, scaffolded feel in several letters. Curves are broadly rounded but often interrupted by sharp notches, angled cuts, and small hooked spurs; terminals frequently end in tiny curls or beak-like flicks. The overall rhythm is wide and irregularly modulated, with conspicuous crossbar treatments and occasional interior hairline strokes that read as decorative inlays rather than conventional structure.
Best suited to display typography where its unusual construction and dramatic contrast can be appreciated: posters, headlines, branding marks, and packaging. It can also work for short editorial features or pull quotes where a quirky, retro-leaning voice is desired. For long passages or small sizes, the delicate hairlines and busy striping may reduce clarity, so looser spacing and larger sizes will help.
The font projects an eccentric, theatrical tone—part vintage show-card, part playful experiment. Its bold slabs and delicate connectors create a dramatic push–pull between weight and fragility, giving text a quirky, attention-grabbing cadence. The repeated hooks and cut-ins add a slightly mischievous, handmade-meets-mechanical character.
The design appears intended as an unconventional slab serif that exaggerates contrast and disassembles letter structure into bold caps and delicate connectors. By combining heavy top-and-bottom slabs with ornamental spurs and incised cuts, it aims to create a memorable, stylized silhouette and a distinctive text texture for expressive display work.
In text, the strong horizontal emphasis produces a striped texture, especially across words with repeated E/F/T-style bars. The thin hairlines and interior strokes are visually distinctive at display sizes but can create busy counters and fragile joins in denser settings. Numerals follow the same motif, mixing broad curves with sharp, inset cuts and occasional hairline detailing.