Slab Square Poly 1 is a bold, normal width, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, sports branding, packaging, signage, industrial, athletic, retro, sturdy, utilitarian, impact, ruggedness, heritage sports, industrial clarity, square serif, blocky, rounded corners, ink-trap feel, compact.
A heavy, squared slab-serif design with mostly monoline strokes and tightly controlled geometry. Serifs are blunt and rectangular, while many joins and outer corners are slightly rounded, giving a softened, machined look rather than a sharp stencil. Counters are compact and often squarish, with occasional notch-like cut-ins at joints that suggest an ink-trap influence. Proportions read sturdy and somewhat condensed in feel, with a consistent, rhythmic footprint across capitals, lowercase, and numerals.
Best suited for headlines, posters, and branding where a bold, rugged voice is needed. It works particularly well for sports identities, product packaging, and signage-style applications that benefit from strong slab serifs and compact, high-impact letterforms.
The overall tone is tough and workmanlike, evoking industrial labeling and heritage sports typography. Its squared forms and emphatic slabs communicate strength and reliability, while the rounded corners keep it approachable and contemporary.
The design appears intended to deliver a robust, high-impact slab-serif voice with squared construction and softened corners for a modern, manufactured feel. It prioritizes punchy display readability and a consistent, engineered rhythm across text and numerals.
The sample text shows a strong, even color and clear word shapes at display sizes, with distinctive slab terminals that keep lines visually anchored. Rounded-rectangle forms in letters like O and Q reinforce the square-meets-soft theme, and the numerals maintain the same blocky, engineered character.