Slab Contrasted Ermo 1 is a very bold, very wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, packaging, signage, western, circus, playful, rugged, vintage, impact, ornament, poster style, themed voice, decorative, chunky, notched, bracketed, ink-trap-like.
A heavy, display-oriented slab with broad proportions and a strongly carved silhouette. Strokes are thick with noticeable internal contrast created by cut-in counters and deep notches at joins, giving many letters a chiseled, stencil-like rhythm. Serifs are squared and slabby with pronounced bracketing and scooped terminals that read as decorative cutouts rather than clean endings. Counters tend to be compact and rounded, while exterior corners are sharpened by wedge-shaped bites, producing an alternating pattern of bulges and nicks across the alphabet.
Best suited to display settings such as posters, headlines, event graphics, packaging, and storefront-style signage where the notched slabs can be read as a deliberate decorative feature. It can work well for single words, titles, and brand marks; for longer passages it benefits from generous size and spacing to keep the busy interior cut-ins from filling in.
The overall tone is showy and theatrical, evoking old posters, fairground signage, and Western or saloon-era vernacular. The aggressive notching and dense color make it feel bold, assertive, and a bit mischievous, with a handcrafted, woodcut-like energy.
The design appears intended to reinterpret slab-serif poster lettering with a carved, cutout treatment that heightens personality and period flavor. The goal is strong visual impact and a distinctive, themed voice rather than quiet readability.
Texture is highly distinctive at text sizes: the repeated interior cutouts and notches create a lively, vibrating surface that favors short lines and headlines. Numerals and capitals carry especially strong silhouette shaping, while lowercase maintains the same carved motif for consistency.