Slab Square Miwi 5 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, signage, branding, retro, playful, chunky, posterlike, whimsical, high impact, retro flavor, playful display, signage voice, blocky, softened, rounded corners, ink-trap feel, compressed counters.
A heavy, block-driven slab serif with broad rectangular stems and pronounced, flat-ended serifs. Corners are subtly rounded and many joins show scooped notches that read like ink-traps, creating a carved, stencil-like rhythm without breaking the letterforms. Bowls and counters are compact and often asymmetrical, with a lively baseline texture and slightly irregular internal shapes that keep the mass from feeling purely geometric. The lowercase is sturdy and compact, with single-storey forms and thick terminals; figures are similarly weighty with enclosed apertures and simplified geometry.
Best suited for short, attention-grabbing settings such as posters, headlines, storefront-style signage, packaging callouts, and bold brand marks. It can work for punchy subheads or editorial display lines, but the dense counters and decorative notches suggest avoiding long passages of small text.
The overall tone is bold and jovial, with a vintage display energy that feels at home in mid-century signage and novelty printing. Its chunky silhouettes and playful cut-ins give it a friendly, slightly mischievous character rather than a formal or corporate voice.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a friendly, retro display flavor, combining slab-like structure with sculpted cut-ins to create texture and personality at large sizes.
Spacing appears intentionally generous for such a dense weight, helping the forms separate in display settings. The distinctive notched joins and bulbous bowls become more prominent at larger sizes, where the sculpted interior shapes read as a defining stylistic motif.