Solid Tyki 2 is a very bold, normal width, low contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, album art, industrial, brutalist, techno, arcade, urban, maximum impact, industrial feel, retro-tech, stencil cues, silhouette focus, stencil-like, chamfered, blocky, modular, poster.
A heavy, block-built display face with squared geometry and prominent chamfered corners that create an octagonal, cut-metal silhouette. Forms are largely solid and enclosed counters collapse into filled shapes, producing compact, monolithic glyphs with a strong rectangular footprint. The design feels modular and grid-driven, with frequent notches and stepped cut-ins that suggest stencil breaks or mechanical joints. Spacing in text appears tight and the overall color is extremely dense, emphasizing silhouette over internal detail.
Best suited to large-scale display work where its solid silhouettes can carry impact: posters, headlines, logotypes, packaging, and album or event graphics. It can also work for short UI labels or section headers in games or tech-themed layouts when set big with ample tracking to preserve recognizability.
The tone is gritty and industrial, evoking techno signage, arcade-era graphics, and brutalist poster typography. Its hard edges and solid mass read as assertive and utilitarian, with a crafted, machine-cut attitude rather than a smooth geometric polish.
The design appears intended to maximize visual punch through dense, filled forms and a modular, chamfered construction, prioritizing a distinctive silhouette over traditional legibility. Its stencil-like breaks and cut corners suggest an influence from industrial marking, machinery, or retro-digital display aesthetics.
At smaller sizes the filled interiors and dense sidebearings make words read as a sequence of bold shapes, so clarity depends on generous size and contrast. The distinctive chamfers and occasional asymmetric cutouts provide character, but also make the rhythm more irregular than a conventional sans.