Solid Dedu 7 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, game ui, retro, industrial, arcade, futuristic, stencil-like, compact impact, silhouette focus, retro sci-fi, industrial branding, condensed, monolinear, rounded corners, rectilinear, squared bowls.
A condensed display face built from heavy vertical strokes and tight, rectilinear bowls with softened, rounded terminals. Many counters are minimized or fully closed, producing a solid, cut-out silhouette where letters read more by exterior shape than interior space. Curves are rare and handled as squared, rounded-rectangle forms; joins are crisp and mechanical, with occasional notch-like cut-ins and asymmetric details. The overall rhythm is vertical and compact, with tall ascenders/descenders and small interior apertures that create a dense, poster-ready texture.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as headlines, posters, branding marks, and packaging where the condensed footprint is useful. It can also work for game or tech-themed interfaces and signage-style graphics, provided sizes are large enough to keep the closed counters from muddling character recognition.
The tone is distinctly retro-futurist and industrial, evoking arcade cabinets, sci‑fi titling, and utilitarian labeling. Its solid interiors and narrow stance feel assertive and engineered, with a playful novelty edge that comes from the unconventional counter treatment.
The design appears intended to maximize presence in a narrow width while leaning into a solid, counter-collapsing construction for a distinctive novelty look. It prioritizes silhouette-driven recognition and a compact, mechanical rhythm for dramatic display applications.
Several glyphs rely on enclosed/filled counters (e.g., rounded rectangular masses in letters like O/Q and forms with minimal openings), which increases visual weight and can reduce small-size legibility. Numerals follow the same condensed, blocky logic, pairing well with the uppercase for compact headings and lockups.