Slab Square Pebo 7 is a bold, normal width, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, signage, branding, assertive, industrial, retro, editorial, sturdy, impact, solidity, legibility, utility, nostalgia, blocky, compact, bracketed, ink-trap feel, high-impact.
A heavy slab-serif design with compact proportions and a firmly planted baseline. Strokes are thick and mostly even, with broad, squared serifs and short, sturdy terminals that create a blocky rhythm across words. Curves are kept tight and purposeful, and joins feel reinforced, giving many letters a slightly condensed, no-nonsense silhouette. The numerals and lowercase maintain the same dense color and robust texture, producing strong presence at both display and short-text sizes.
Best suited to headlines, posters, labels, and packaging where a strong, sturdy voice is needed. It can also work for branding and signage that benefits from an industrial, retro-inflected slab-serif look, and for short editorial callouts where dense typographic color is desirable.
The overall tone is confident and workmanlike, with a faint retro print flavor that recalls utilitarian signage and editorial headlines. Its dense weight and squared details communicate solidity and authority rather than delicacy.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a stable, rectangular construction and pronounced slabs, emphasizing clarity and authority over refinement. It aims for a dependable, print-forward texture that holds together well in bold, attention-getting settings.
Counters tend to be relatively small, increasing overall darkness and emphasis. The design reads with a consistent, even “inked” texture, and the slab serifs help keep lines visually aligned and stable in multi-line settings.