Solid Kovo 2 is a very bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, packaging, signage, retro, playful, punchy, posterish, cartoonish, attention-grabbing, retro flavor, graphic impact, quirky character, dense color, chunky, soft-cornered, notched, wedge-serifed, swashy.
A heavy, display-oriented serif with chunky proportions, broad shoulders, and visibly irregular, sculpted contours. Strokes are mostly monolinear in feel but animated by sharp triangular notches, wedge-like terminals, and occasional inward bites that collapse or nearly collapse counters in several letters. The serifs read as stout, bracketless wedges, while curves are inflated and teardrop-like, giving round letters a compact, carved look. Spacing appears tight and the interior shapes are small, making the overall texture dense and dark, especially in text settings.
Best suited to short, high-impact copy such as headlines, posters, logos, packaging callouts, and signage where its sculpted notches and dense color can read as a graphic shape. It performs especially well at larger sizes where the wedge terminals and carved-in details remain clear and intentional.
The face projects a bold, retro novelty energy with a mischievous, theatrical tone. Its exaggerated cuts and chunky silhouettes feel playful and attention-seeking, evoking classic poster lettering and quirky headline styles rather than sober editorial typography.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum visual personality and dark typographic color through exaggerated weight, reduced internal space, and decorative wedge-and-notch detailing. It prioritizes distinctive silhouette and retro display flair over neutral readability, making it a purposeful choice for expressive branding and attention-grabbing titles.
In paragraph-like samples the strong black mass and reduced counters create a distinctly “solid” texture, with letterforms tending to merge visually at smaller sizes. The most characteristic details are the recurring triangular cut-ins and wedge terminals, which give the alphabet a hand-carved, stylized rhythm across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals.