Solid Bohu 2 is a light, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, book covers, headlines, packaging, event invites, whimsical, storybook, quirky, handmade, playful, expressiveness, whimsy, decoration, texture, themed display, flared serif, ink-trap feel, teardrop terminals, bouncy baseline, soft corners.
A quirky serif display face with spindly, gently modulated strokes and a deliberately uneven, hand-drawn rhythm. Serifs are small and flared, often ending in rounded or teardrop-like terminals, and many joins show soft swelling that gives an inked, cut-paper feel. Several characters feature collapsed counters and filled interior shapes—most noticeable in rounded letters and some bowls—creating bold black “blobs” that punctuate the otherwise light construction. Proportions vary from glyph to glyph, with slightly irregular widths and a lively, non-mechanical texture across the alphabet and numerals.
Best suited to display settings where personality is the priority: posters, headlines, book and album covers, playful branding, and themed packaging. It can work for short paragraphs or pull quotes when generous size and spacing are used, but the irregular rhythm and occasional solid counters make it less ideal for dense, small-size reading.
The overall tone is playful and eccentric, evoking children’s-book lettering, crafty packaging, and Halloween/curiosity-shop whimsy. The mix of delicate strokes with occasional solid fills adds a mischievous, offbeat character that feels intentionally imperfect and theatrical rather than formal.
The design appears intended to blend a lightly serifed, hand-crafted skeleton with deliberate counter-collapsing and inky fills to create a distinctive novelty texture. The goal is expressive charm and visual surprise, with recognizable letterforms that still feel irregular, animated, and decorative.
In continuous text the filled-in bowls create strong spots of emphasis, so the font reads best when that pattern is treated as a stylistic feature rather than a neutrality. The numerals follow the same quirky logic, with curvy forms and occasional heavy fills that match the letters’ irregular pacing.