Slab Unbracketed Powi 1 is a bold, very wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, signage, sports branding, industrial, retro, rugged, authoritative, mechanical, impactful display, industrial voice, retro signage, durable texture, squared, blocky, stencil-like, ink-trap, octagonal.
A heavy, squared slab-serif design with broad, uniform strokes and a distinctly geometric build. Counters and outer curves are frequently flattened into rounded-rectangle and octagonal forms, producing a boxy rhythm with firm horizontals and verticals. Serifs are blunt and rectangular, joining strokes sharply and reinforcing a sturdy, engineered texture. Terminals often show small notches and cut-ins that read like ink traps or stencil-inspired detailing, while curves (notably in C, G, O, and e) stay tight and rectilinear rather than truly round.
Best suited to headlines, posters, labels, and packaging where a bold, mechanical presence is desirable. It can also work for short bursts of text in branding or signage, especially when you want a compact, high-impact texture with a retro-industrial feel.
The overall tone feels industrial and utilitarian, with a retro sign-painter and machinery-label flavor. Its dense, blocky silhouettes project strength and directness, leaning more toward rugged functionality than refinement.
Likely drawn to deliver a tough, high-impact slab-serif voice with squared geometry and distinctive notch details that evoke stenciling or ink-trap construction. The design appears aimed at maintaining a solid, readable silhouette while adding character through angular curves and cut-in terminals.
The numerals and capitals emphasize a squared, modular geometry, and the lowercase maintains the same hard-edged logic, keeping the page color consistent in text. The distinctive internal cut-ins add character at display sizes and help keep joins from clogging when set tight.