Slab Unbracketed Tuhy 9 is a very light, normal width, low contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
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A very thin, sharply slanted serif design with crisp, unbracketed slab-like terminals that read as small horizontal blocks on many strokes. Curves are smooth and restrained, with an overall narrow, vertical skeleton in the uppercase and more flowing, looped forms in the lowercase. The rhythm is light and even, with minimal stroke modulation and a consistent hairline presence throughout, giving counters and apertures plenty of white space. Numerals and capitals keep a formal, drawn structure while the lowercase introduces more handwritten movement, especially in letters with long ascenders and descenders.
Best suited for display use such as magazine features, luxury branding, invitations, and refined packaging where its hairline elegance can be preserved. It also works well for pull quotes, titling, and short passages in high-resolution environments, especially when paired with ample leading and whitespace.
The font conveys a cultivated, editorial tone—quietly luxurious rather than loud—suggesting fashion, literature, and high-end stationery. Its steep slant and hairline build create a sense of speed and finesse, while the squared serifs add a subtle, modern crispness that keeps it from feeling purely script-like.
The design appears intended to combine the polish of a formal italic serif with a lightly calligraphic, handwritten cadence, using crisp slab-like terminals to add definition and a contemporary edge. The goal seems to be a delicate, high-style voice for refined display typography rather than rugged text setting.
At text sizes the extreme thinness and tight hairline details may benefit from generous size and careful output settings, as small features (like dots and serifs) can appear fragile. The italic angle is pronounced, and the lowercase has a distinctly more cursive personality than the uppercase, which can add expressiveness in mixed-case settings.