Slab Contrasted Onga 6 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, signage, packaging, western, industrial, retro, sturdy, playful, attention grabbing, vintage display, signage feel, texture detail, strong branding, blocky, rounded, notched, bracketless, squarish.
A heavy, block-constructed slab serif with compact, squared proportions and softened corners. Strokes are thick and assertive, with clear slab terminals and frequent rectangular notches/cut-ins that create a chiseled, stencil-like texture in many letters. Counters tend to be small and boxy, and curves (O, C, G, U) are rounded but held in by straight-sided geometry. The lowercase is large and sturdy, with short ascenders/descenders and a high apparent x-height, while figures are wide, chunky, and tightly enclosed.
Best used for display typography where strong presence and personality are desired—posters, headlines, branding marks, labels, and signage. It can also work for short callouts or section headers in editorial layouts when paired with a simpler text face to balance its dense, decorative interior shaping.
The overall tone reads as bold and workmanlike, evoking Western poster lettering and vintage industrial signage. The notched details add a quirky, handmade energy that keeps it from feeling purely utilitarian, giving it a punchy, characterful voice suited to attention-getting display settings.
The letterforms appear designed to deliver maximum impact through mass and geometry, while using notched slab details to inject a stylized, vintage flavor. The high lowercase presence suggests an intention to keep words readable and forceful in short lines, even when set in mixed case.
The design maintains a consistent, modular rhythm across caps, lowercase, and numerals, with repeated squared joins and inset cuts acting as a unifying motif. At smaller sizes the tight counters and interior notches may fill in, while at larger sizes those same details become a distinctive texture.