Slab Square Hilu 10 is a very bold, wide, monoline, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, signage, industrial, retro, arcade, mechanical, assertive, impact, ruggedness, retro tech, modularity, blocky, angular, square-cut, stencil-like, compact.
A heavy, block-built slab design with square, flat-ended terminals and a largely monoline stroke feel. The forms are constructed from rectilinear strokes with tight interior counters, crisp right angles, and frequent notch-like cuts that create a subtly stencil-like texture. Capitals read as compact and sturdy with broad shoulders and squared bowls, while lowercase echoes the same modular geometry, keeping apertures small and corners sharp. Numerals follow the same squared construction, producing a consistent, sign-like rhythm across text.
Best suited for bold display settings such as posters, headlines, branding marks, packaging panels, and signage where strong presence and quick recognition matter. It can work in short blocks of copy at larger sizes, but the tight counters and dense texture favor titles, labels, and emphatic callouts over long-form reading.
The overall tone is forceful and utilitarian, evoking industrial labeling and retro digital-era display typography. Its sharp geometry and cut-in details add a rugged, game-like energy that feels mechanical and purposeful rather than refined or delicate.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact through compact, squared letterforms and slab-like terminals, while adding visual interest via small cut-in notches that suggest fabrication or stenciling. It aims for a robust, retro-industrial voice that stays consistent across caps, lowercase, and figures.
The dense counters and squared joins create strong color on the page, especially in longer lines of text, where the cut-ins help prevent large black masses from feeling overly flat. Distinctive angular shaping in diagonals (e.g., V/W/X) and squared bowls (e.g., O/Q) reinforces a constructed, machined character.