Outline Vawa 13 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, logotypes, packaging, art deco, theatrical, vintage, architectural, playful, deco revival, sign painting, showcard, titling, ornamentation, inline, monolinear, high-waisted, condensed feel, stenciled.
A decorative inline display face built from a clean outer contour with an interior cutout that reads like a narrow “shadow” or channel running through many strokes. Forms are generally upright and fairly narrow, with tall lowercase proportions and a compact rhythm that makes the counters feel stacked and vertical. Terminals are crisp and squared-off, and curves (C, G, O, S) keep a controlled, geometric roundness while remaining slightly compressed. The inline treatment is consistent across caps, lowercase, and figures, producing a strong poster-like color despite the open interiors.
Best suited to display settings where the inline/outline construction can be appreciated: posters, headlines, branding marks, storefront signage, and packaging. It performs especially well at medium-to-large sizes and in short phrases, where the internal channels read clearly and create a distinctive vintage title look.
The overall tone is strongly Art Deco and stage-poster inspired—ornamental, urbane, and a bit dramatic. The internal cutouts add a marquee-like sparkle, giving the face a showy, vintage personality without becoming overly ornate. It feels simultaneously architectural and playful, suggesting early-20th-century signage and titling.
The design appears intended to evoke classic Art Deco titling through condensed geometry, crisp terminals, and a consistent interior cutout that mimics inlaid or shadowed letterforms. The goal is high visual impact and period character for display typography rather than neutral, extended reading.
Letterforms show deliberate stylization in places (notably the curvier characters and some diagonals), which adds character but also increases texture in continuous text. Numerals share the same inline logic, with rounded figures like 0, 6, 8, and 9 emphasizing the font’s decorative interior channel. The sample text demonstrates a lively rhythm where the inlines create a repeating vertical cadence across words.