Solid Guma 7 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, album covers, playful, quirky, retro, geometric, cartoony, graphic impact, iconic letters, playful display, retro styling, stencil-like, chunky, abstracted, high-impact, logo-like.
A highly stylized, heavy display face built from simplified geometric masses and sharp cut-ins. Many letters are reduced to bold silhouettes with interior spaces collapsed, creating a solid, poster-like color. Curves are broad and circular, while joins and terminals often resolve into straight chops, wedges, and notches that introduce an irregular rhythm. Proportions vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, with some characters feeling wide and others compact, reinforcing a handmade, constructed look rather than a strictly uniform system.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, headlines, branding marks, and packaging where its solid silhouettes can act as graphic shapes. It can also work for album/event artwork and playful editorial display, especially when set with generous tracking and ample size.
The overall tone is playful and eccentric, with a retro-futurist, cut-paper sensibility. Its chunky silhouettes and unexpected notches read as bold, attention-seeking, and slightly mischievous—more about personality than neutrality.
The design appears intended to turn letterforms into bold graphic icons by collapsing counters and carving distinctive wedges and notches into familiar shapes. It prioritizes immediacy and visual character over conventional readability, aiming for a memorable, novelty display voice.
Legibility is strongest at large sizes where the silhouette language can be read quickly; at smaller sizes, the collapsed counters and sculpted cut-ins can make similar shapes converge. Numerals and capitals carry the most emblematic, sign-like presence, while lowercase forms keep the same solid, sculpted approach for continuity.