Slab Contrasted Mimu 7 is a bold, very narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, logotypes, packaging, western, circus, vintage, playful, poster-like, attention grabbing, period display, decorative impact, compact headlines, bracketed, wedge serifs, bulb terminals, incised feel, compact.
A compact, condensed display serif with heavy stems and pronounced slab-like serifs that often flare into wedge shapes. The design mixes strong verticals with deep, rounded internal cut-ins and notch-like joins, creating a carved, almost stencil-adjacent look in places. Uppercase forms are robust and blocky with small counters and distinctive interior scoops; lowercase is similarly weighty with bulbous terminals and tight apertures. Overall spacing appears snug, contributing to a dense, punchy texture in words.
Best suited to display settings such as posters, headlines, event graphics, and signage where its condensed width and bold presence can maximize impact. It can also work for branding marks and packaging that want a vintage show-poster tone, especially at medium to large sizes.
The font reads as showy and theatrical, with a nostalgic, turn-of-the-century poster energy. Its strong silhouette and decorative notches evoke Western playbills, circus signage, and other period display printing, giving it an outgoing, attention-grabbing personality.
The design appears intended to deliver a condensed, high-impact serif voice with ornamental interior shaping—optimized for attention and a period-inspired, decorative flavor rather than quiet text reading.
The exaggerated interior cut-ins and small counters can fill in at smaller sizes, so the face is most comfortable when given room to breathe. Numerals share the same condensed, heavy construction and maintain a consistent display rhythm alongside capitals and lowercase.