Slab Contrasted Odmo 5 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, branding, packaging, sports identity, playful, retro, sporty, punchy, quirky, attention-grabbing, retro flavor, sport energy, brand voice, slab serif, soft corners, ink trap, rounded terminals, swashy.
A heavy, right-leaning slab serif with compact, energetic letterforms and a distinctly cut, stencil-like feel in places. Strokes are thick with visibly shaped joins and small notches/counters that create a carved rhythm, while the slab elements read as blocky and assertive rather than delicate. Curves are generous and slightly bulbous, and many terminals end in rounded or scooped forms that keep the texture lively. The overall color on the page is dense, with a bouncy baseline rhythm and noticeable variation in glyph widths that adds movement in text.
Best suited for short to medium-length display settings where personality and impact matter: headlines, posters, logos/wordmarks, product packaging, and energetic brand systems. It can also work for pull quotes or section headers when paired with a calmer text face for longer reading.
The design projects a vintage, playful confidence—part athletic display, part cartoonish headline. Its chunky slabs and jaunty slant give it a fast, upbeat tone suited to attention-grabbing messaging rather than quiet neutrality.
The font appears designed to merge bold slab presence with a lively italicized rhythm, using carved details and rounded shaping to create a distinctive, retro-leaning display voice that stays readable while feeling expressive.
In the sample text, the tight, dark texture and distinctive internal cut-ins make word shapes highly characteristic, especially in rounded letters and the more decorative lowercase. Numerals and capitals maintain the same stout, sporty construction, reinforcing a cohesive, poster-ready voice.