Slab Contrasted Gysu 5 is a very bold, wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, signage, branding, packaging, western, playful, retro, friendly, punchy, attention grabbing, vintage feel, signage voice, friendly display, bold personality, soft corners, bracketed slabs, rounded slabs, ink-trap notches, bouncy.
A heavy, display-oriented slab serif with broad proportions and compact internal counters. Strokes are generally low-contrast, with thick stems and chunky, bracketed slab terminals that read as rounded blocks rather than sharp serifs. Many joins and corners are softened, and several glyphs show small notch-like cut-ins at junctions and terminals, adding texture to the silhouette. The overall rhythm is sturdy and slightly irregular in a deliberate way, with lively curves on bowls and a subtly springy baseline feel in the lowercase.
Best suited to headlines and short bursts of text where its bold silhouettes can carry personality—posters, signage, logotypes, labels, and packaging. It can work for subheads at larger sizes, but the dense counters and chunky terminals make it less ideal for long-form reading at small sizes.
The tone is bold and extroverted, mixing a vintage poster sensibility with a friendly, cartoonish warmth. Its chunky slabs and softened corners evoke old-fashioned signage and western-inspired display lettering, while the quirky notches keep it informal and approachable.
Designed to deliver maximum visual presence with a nostalgic slab-serif voice, emphasizing sturdy shapes, softened corners, and decorative notch details to create a distinctive display texture.
The uppercase forms look especially blocky and emblematic, while the lowercase maintains the same chunky construction with relatively large, round counters (notably in a, e, o) and compact apertures. Numerals match the heavy, rounded slab language and are built for impact rather than fine-detail readability.