Solid Umla 9 is a very bold, normal width, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, album art, rugged, playful, primitive, hand-cut, posterish, attention-grab, handmade texture, graphic impact, deliberate roughness, angular, chiseled, blocky, faceted, chunky.
A heavy, solid display face built from chunky, faceted shapes. Strokes are thick and largely uniform, with corners clipped into irregular polygons that create a hand-cut silhouette rather than smooth curves. Counters are mostly collapsed, so letters read as bold masses with only occasional notches and wedges to suggest internal structure. Spacing and sidebearings feel uneven by design, and many glyphs lean on asymmetrical cuts, giving the alphabet a lively, improvised rhythm.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, headlines, logo marks, event graphics, and bold packaging panels. It works well where a rugged, handmade texture is desired and where sizes are large enough to preserve letter distinction.
The overall tone is rough and mischievous, like cut-paper signage or stone-chipped lettering. Its irregular geometry and filled-in interiors give it a gritty, graphic punch that feels handmade and slightly chaotic rather than polished.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum visual weight with a deliberately imperfect, hand-hewn construction. By collapsing counters and introducing faceted cuts, it prioritizes texture and attitude over fine readability, aiming for attention-grabbing display impact.
Round forms (like O/0 and C/G) become multi-sided blobs, while diagonals and joins are emphasized through sharp wedges and abrupt terminations. In text, the dense silhouettes can merge visually at smaller sizes, so the design reads best when given room and contrast.