Slab Contrasted Tigu 4 is a very bold, wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, signage, titles, playful, retro, rugged, boisterous, hand-cut, handmade feel, vintage poster, attention-grab, expressive display, chunky, slabbed, irregular, wobbly, compact counters.
A chunky display face with heavy, slab-like terminals and deliberately uneven outlines. Strokes are broadly uniform with only mild internal modulation, while corners are frequently chamfered or notched, creating a cut-paper or woodcut feel. The letterforms sit upright but wobble subtly in their contour and alignment, and widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, producing a lively, bouncy rhythm. Counters are relatively tight and apertures tend to be small, giving the texture a dense, poster-ready color.
Best suited to high-impact display settings such as posters, event titles, storefront-style signage, and bold packaging callouts. It works well when you want typography to feel handmade and attention-grabbing, especially at medium-to-large sizes where the notches and slabbed terminals can read clearly.
The overall tone is playful and boisterous, with a retro carnival/western poster energy. Its intentionally rough, slightly off-kilter construction reads as handcrafted and mischievous rather than polished or corporate.
The design appears intended to evoke hand-carved or hand-cut lettering with slabby serifs, prioritizing character and texture over neutral readability. Its variable widths and irregular edges are used to inject motion and a vintage show-card attitude into short phrases and titles.
The numerals and lowercase follow the same rugged, chiseled logic as the caps, helping mixed-case settings keep a consistent, animated texture. In longer lines, the strong blackness and irregular edges create a distinctive, noisy surface that becomes part of the graphic voice.