Outline Vaze 2 is a bold, wide, low contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, stickers, playful, bold, retro, friendly, punchy, display impact, playful branding, layer-ready, retro flavor, signage feel, outlined, rounded, blocky, cartoonish, high-impact.
A heavy, blocky sans with an outlined construction: thick outer contours define each glyph while the counters and interior remain open, producing a hollow, sign-like silhouette. Shapes are broadly proportioned with rounded corners and softly squared curves, giving letters a chunky, sticker-ready presence. Terminals are mostly blunt and geometric, and the rhythm is stable across caps, lowercase, and numerals, with especially robust bowls and wide apertures that keep the outline readable at display sizes.
Best suited for display typography where the outline treatment can be appreciated—posters, event graphics, playful branding, packaging, and logo wordmarks. It also works well for badges, stickers, and social graphics, especially when paired with solid fills, shadows, or contrasting background colors to enhance the hollow forms.
The overall tone is upbeat and attention-grabbing, combining a nostalgic, poster-like presence with a friendly, cartoon-inflected warmth. Its inflated outlines and rounded geometry feel approachable rather than formal, lending a playful voice that still reads as bold and assertive.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact through a bold outline silhouette while maintaining a friendly, rounded personality. The consistent, chunky geometry suggests a focus on clear, scalable display use and on enabling decorative layering or color separation via its open interiors.
The outline thickness is substantial enough to create strong silhouettes, and the open interiors emphasize negative space—useful for layered color treatments, knockouts, or stroke-only effects. Numerals follow the same chunky, rounded construction, keeping the set cohesive for headlines and short bursts of text.