Slab Contrasted Nofy 1 is a very bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, logos, signage, playful, retro, chunky, industrial, toybox, impact, distinctiveness, retro flavor, friendly boldness, textural detail, rounded, soft-cornered, ink-trap, blobby, stencil-like.
A heavy, rounded slab-serif design with compact proportions and pronounced terminals. Strokes are thick and slightly modulated, with distinctive internal cut-ins and notches that create a stenciled, ink-trap-like texture in counters and joins. Corners are broadly rounded, curves are squat and geometric, and the overall rhythm is bouncy with uneven visual mass from letter to letter. Numerals and lowercase maintain the same chunky logic, with deep counters and flattened curves that keep the silhouettes bold and legible at display sizes.
Best suited to display work such as headlines, posters, branding marks, packaging, and short bursts of copy where its chunky silhouettes can do the heavy lifting. It can also work for playful signage or editorial pull quotes, especially when set with generous tracking and line spacing.
The face reads as playful and retro, with a toy-like heaviness and a slightly mechanical, cut-out character. Its notched details add a crafty, stamped feel that can lean either whimsical or industrial depending on color and layout. Overall it feels attention-seeking and friendly rather than formal.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold slab-serif voice with added personality through rounded geometry and deliberate internal notching. Those cut-ins introduce texture and contrast within the heavy strokes, helping large type feel lively and distinctive rather than purely monolithic.
The notches and interior apertures give the text a textured, almost perforated color on the page, especially in dense settings. Because the forms are wide-shouldered and heavily rounded, tight tracking can make words look blocky; a touch of extra spacing helps the distinctive inner cut-ins remain clear.