Slab Square Kopi 1 is a regular weight, normal width, very high contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, editorial, logotypes, retro, confident, playful, dramatic, vintage flair, display impact, expressive italic, print punch, bracketed, ink-trap, beaked, compact, bouncy.
A high-contrast italic slab serif with a pronounced forward slant, rounded/bracketed slab serifs, and tapered joins that create a crisp thick–thin rhythm. Strokes swell into heavy slabs at terminals while many curves and diagonals finish in sharp, slightly beaked tips, giving letters a lively, calligraphic bite. The lowercase shows a sturdy, compact build with a moderate x-height and noticeably weighty feet on stems, while capitals feel wide and headline-oriented with strong baseline anchoring. Overall spacing reads a bit irregular and energetic, enhancing the sense of motion without sacrificing clarity at display sizes.
Best suited to display applications such as headlines, posters, cover lines, and packaging where contrast and slab terminals can read cleanly and add personality. It can also work for short editorial callouts, pull quotes, and brand marks that want a vintage-leaning, high-impact italic voice.
The tone is bold and theatrical, mixing old-style newspaper/advertising flavor with a slightly mischievous, show-card energy. Its dramatic contrast and bouncing slabs feel attention-seeking and expressive rather than quiet or neutral.
Likely designed to deliver a classic slab-serif presence with heightened contrast and an italic, attention-grabbing cadence—evoking vintage print while remaining bold and legible in modern display contexts.
Numerals and punctuation inherit the same heavy slab terminals and sharp internal transitions, which can create striking texture in mixed-case settings. The italic angle and strong terminal shapes produce a distinctive word silhouette that becomes more graphic as size increases.