Slab Contrasted Noby 10 is a bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, signage, logos, western, circus, retro, playful, poster, nostalgia, display impact, vintage print, friendly character, brand voice, bracketed, ball terminals, ink-trap-like, rounded, chunky.
A chunky slab-serif with pronounced bracketed slabs and a lively, slightly irregular rhythm. Stems are heavy while joins and curves open into rounded counters, and several glyphs show ball-like terminals and notched, ink-trap-like cuts where strokes meet, adding sparkle at text sizes. Proportions are compact with sturdy capitals and a friendly, rounded lowercase; the design reads as a display face with enough clarity to hold together in short passages.
Best suited to posters, headlines, and branding where a strong, characterful slab serif is needed. It works well for packaging, labels, and signage that want a vintage or showy tone, and can handle short blurbs or pull quotes when generous spacing and size are available.
The overall tone is theatrical and nostalgic, evoking old playbills, fairground signage, and western or frontier-era printing. Its punchy slabs and quirky interior shaping give it a confident, extroverted voice that feels fun rather than formal.
The design appears intended to reinterpret vintage slab-serif display typography with added contrast and playful detailing. Its sturdy slabs provide impact, while the rounded terminals and carved joins introduce personality and maintain legibility in bold, attention-grabbing settings.
Figures are weighty and straightforward, matching the caps’ blocky presence, while letters like the lowercase a and g lean more typographic with rounded bowls and distinctive terminals. The texture in sample text is dark and emphatic, with noticeable vertical stress and a consistent, stamped/printed feel across the set.