Slab Square Sivi 2 is a very bold, wide, monoline, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, sports branding, packaging, signage, industrial, collegiate, retro, sturdy, playful, impact, ruggedness, retro branding, sign painting, team style, blocky, square, bracketless, geometric, compact counters.
A heavy, block-constructed slab serif with squared-off terminals and a strongly rectilinear skeleton. Strokes maintain a near-uniform thickness, with crisp right-angle joins and short, assertive slabs that read like built-in feet and caps. Counters are compact and boxy, giving letters a dense, high-impact texture, while spacing and rhythm stay even and regular across the alphabet and numerals. The overall drawing favors straight segments over curves, producing a pixel-like, machined clarity in both uppercase and lowercase.
Best suited to headlines and short bursts of copy where mass and structure are an advantage—posters, sports or team-style branding, storefront or wayfinding-style signage, and bold packaging callouts. It also works well for logos and wordmarks that want a sturdy, constructed feel, and for large-scale numerals in labels or titles.
The tone is bold and workmanlike, combining an industrial, sign-painted sturdiness with a retro collegiate flavor. Its chunky geometry and squared details feel confident and slightly playful, evoking vintage athletic marks, arcade-era graphics, and utilitarian labeling.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a constructed, square-first vocabulary: strong slabs, minimal stroke modulation, and compact counters that create a solid, unmistakable silhouette. It prioritizes punchy legibility and a retro-industrial character over delicacy or extended text comfort.
In text, the dark color and tight internal spaces create strong emphasis and high contrast against the page, but also a compact, packed-in look at smaller sizes. The squared curves and flat-ended serifs keep forms consistent across letters and figures, helping it hold together as a coherent display style.