Solid Boby 1 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, game ui, album covers, futuristic, techno, angular, industrial, arcade, sci-fi display, graphic impact, experimental legibility, interface styling, retro-tech homage, octagonal, chamfered, geometric, modular, high-impact.
This typeface is built from geometric, chamfered strokes that frequently resolve into octagonal terminals and corners. Many counters are intentionally collapsed into solid blocks, while other letters use thin, open outlines, creating a deliberate solid/linear alternation across the set. Stems are generally straight and rigid with crisp joins, minimal curvature, and a modular, almost stencil-like construction. The rhythm is compact and vertical, with simplified interior detail that favors strong silhouettes over conventional readability.
Best suited to display applications where its faceted silhouettes and solid counters can read as graphic shapes: headlines, posters, branding marks, game/interface titling, and entertainment packaging. It performs especially well when set with generous spacing and at larger sizes where the intentional counter-collapsing and outline details remain clear.
The overall tone feels futuristic and engineered, with a distinctly retro-digital flavor reminiscent of arcade graphics and sci‑fi interfaces. Its mix of filled masses and spare linework adds a slightly cryptic, coded quality that reads as experimental and attention-seeking rather than neutral.
The design appears intended to create a distinctive, tech-forward display voice by combining polygonal construction with unconventional counter treatment. Rather than optimizing for long-form text, it prioritizes icon-like letterforms and a strong, synthetic texture that can carry a visual identity on its own.
Distinctive features include frequent clipped corners, polygonal bowls (notably in O/0-like forms), and a pronounced contrast between fully filled glyphs and skeletal, outline-only structures. Numerals follow the same faceted logic, producing bold, emblematic shapes that hold up well at display sizes.