Solid Idty 2 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, horror titles, streetwear, event flyers, grunge, handmade, inked, raw, playful, handmade feel, distressed texture, high impact, silhouette focus, blobby, ragged, organic, textured, stamped.
A heavy, inked display face with irregular, blobby contours and noticeably ragged edges throughout. Strokes feel hand-formed rather than constructed, with soft corners, uneven terminals, and fluctuating widths that create a lively, wobbly rhythm across words. Many counters are reduced or fully collapsed into solid shapes, giving letters a dense silhouette and simplifying internal detail. Proportions are compact and slightly inconsistent from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an intentionally imperfect, tactile look.
This font suits short, high-impact settings such as posters, album covers, event flyers, packaging accents, and apparel graphics where texture and attitude are desirable. It works especially well for titles, logos, and pull quotes, and is less suited to long-form reading due to the collapsed counters and rough detailing.
The overall tone is gritty and handmade, like thick paint, marker, or stamped ink pressed onto paper. Its rough texture and collapsed interiors push it toward an expressive, slightly chaotic personality that can read as playful, rebellious, or spooky depending on context.
The design appears intended to capture a thick, imperfect ink impression—prioritizing texture, silhouette, and attitude over precision. By collapsing many interior spaces and embracing uneven contours, it aims to deliver a bold, instantly recognizable display voice with a handcrafted, distressed character.
Legibility holds best at larger sizes where the silhouette-driven forms can be read clearly; at smaller sizes the filled-in openings and rough edges can cause characters to merge and punctuation to feel heavy. Numerals and capitals match the same dense, organic construction, keeping a consistent, poster-ready voice.