Slab Contrasted Lywi 1 is a very bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, branding, signage, retro, playful, chunky, display, industrial, impact, personality, retro flavor, display clarity, rounded, bulbous, ink-trap-like, heavy terminals, soft corners.
A heavy, rounded slab-serif design with soft corners and pronounced, blocky terminals. Strokes alternate between thick masses and slimmer connectors, creating a lively, poster-like rhythm and clear internal counter shapes. Serifs read as chunky, softened slabs, often separated by small notches that give an ink-trap-like feel at joins and corners. Curves are generous and geometric, while horizontals and crossbars tend to sit low and wide, producing a compact, stout silhouette in both uppercase and lowercase.
Best suited for short-to-medium display settings where its strong shapes and distinctive slabs can carry personality—headlines, posters, packaging, brand marks, and attention-grabbing signage. It can also work for playful editorial pull quotes or titles where a retro, chunky presence is desired.
The overall tone feels bold and friendly with a distinctly retro, headline-driven personality. Its chunky forms and softened slabs suggest a mid-century display sensibility, balancing industrial heft with approachable, playful warmth.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a friendly, stylized slab-serif voice, prioritizing distinctive silhouettes and robust forms for display use. The notched joins and soft slabs add visual interest while helping the dense strokes stay clear at larger sizes.
Spacing appears intentionally open for a heavy style, helping counters stay readable in words. Some letters show stylized joins and cut-ins that add character and texture, especially noticeable in mixed-case text where the font’s rhythm becomes more expressive.