Slab Monoline Raha 5 is a regular weight, wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, packaging, posters, book covers, branding, friendly, retro, playful, handmade, approachable, retro charm, soft sturdiness, display personality, approachability, rounded, soft serifs, chunky, bouncy, informal.
A rounded slab-serif with monoline, low-contrast strokes and softly swollen terminals. Serifs are bold and blunted, reading more like cushioned feet than sharp brackets, and many joins and corners are eased into gentle curves. Proportions are generally wide with generous counters, while widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, creating a lively, uneven rhythm. The overall color is dark and sturdy, with a slightly wobbly, hand-drawn regularity rather than strict geometric precision.
Best suited to headlines, short blurbs, and brand moments where a friendly retro voice is desired—such as packaging, café menus, posters, book covers, and playful identities. The heavy, rounded slabs keep it legible at display sizes, while the lively variability makes it less ideal for dense, small-size text setting.
The tone is warm and personable, with a nostalgic, mid-century sign-painting or children’s-book friendliness. Its soft slabs and buoyant shapes make it feel casual and inviting, leaning quirky rather than formal or technical.
The design appears intended to blend slab-serif sturdiness with an informal, hand-rendered feel, prioritizing warmth, recognizability, and personality. It aims to evoke vintage print and signage while staying easy to read through broad shapes and open counters.
The alphabet shows distinctive, characterful forms (including curvy diagonals and rounded shoulders) that emphasize charm over strict typographic neutrality. Numerals and capitals maintain the same soft, chunky treatment, helping the font hold together as a display face at larger sizes.