Slab Weird Byba 9 is a regular weight, wide, very high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, branding, packaging, album art, eccentric, mechanical, theatrical, retro, quirky, deconstruction, novelty, impact, retro sign, stencil-like, segmented, ink-trap, beaked, bracketed.
A display slab with bold, rectangular serifs and sharply segmented construction. Strokes alternate between heavy horizontals/terminals and much lighter connecting hairlines, creating a cut-up, engineered rhythm that reads almost stencil-like in places. Many letters show flattened caps, scooped joins, and occasional beak-like protrusions, with rounded bowls interrupted by crisp notches. Proportions run on the wider side, and spacing feels intentionally irregular to emphasize the font’s broken, modular texture across words and lines.
Best suited to display contexts where personality and texture are desirable, such as posters, headlines, branding marks, packaging, and entertainment or music collateral. It performs especially well when given enough size and breathing room for the segmented details and slab terminals to read clearly.
The overall tone is eccentric and slightly mischievous, blending vintage sign-painting energy with a mechanical, deconstructed feel. Its high-contrast segmentation gives text a theatrical, attention-grabbing presence—more “cabinet of curiosities” than sober editorial.
The design appears intended to reinterpret a classic slab-serif skeleton through deliberate interruption—using cut joints, extreme contrast, and oversized terminals to produce a distinctive, weird display voice. The goal seems to be recognizability and graphic impact, turning familiar letterforms into a constructed, almost assembled object.
In the sample text, the internal cut lines and thin connectors become a strong secondary pattern that can shimmer at smaller sizes, while larger settings showcase the distinctive slab terminals and carved-in counters. Numerals and round forms (like O/0) accentuate the font’s signature horizontal slicing and inset details, reinforcing the quirky, fabricated look.