Solid Anba 1 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, merchandise, playful, retro, punchy, quirky, sporty, maximum impact, motion, graphic silhouette, novelty display, rounded, slanted, blobby, soft corners, stencil-like.
A heavy, right-slanted display face built from simplified, swollen shapes with many counters collapsed into solid forms. Curves are broad and ovalized, terminals are mostly blunt, and joins often feel fused, creating a compact, inky silhouette. Uppercase forms mix straightforward geometric construction with occasional cut-ins and angled strokes, while the lowercase leans more casual and handwritten in rhythm. Spacing reads tight and visually dense, with strong black mass and minimal interior detail.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, headlines, branding marks, packaging, and merchandise where the solid silhouettes can read as graphic shapes. It works well in playful or retro-themed visual systems and in large sizes where its unusual counter treatment becomes a feature rather than a legibility constraint.
The overall tone is energetic and mischievous, with a retro-futurist, comic-adjacent attitude. Its filled-in bowls and chunky, slanted forms give it a fast, sporty feel, while the irregularities keep it informal and attention-grabbing rather than refined.
The design appears intended to maximize visual punch through heavy silhouettes, italic motion, and deliberately reduced interior detail. By collapsing counters and smoothing forms into bold shapes, it prioritizes icon-like recognition and a quirky personality over conventional text readability.
Collapsed counters in letters like O, P, and similar round forms create distinctive “solid” blobs that stand out strongly at large sizes but reduce internal differentiation in text. Diagonals and angled strokes (notably in K, V, W, X, Y, and Z) add momentum, and the numerals keep the same simplified, high-impact silhouette.