Wacky Tuho 2 is a very bold, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, game ui, industrial, sci‑fi, playful, aggressive, arcade, high impact, space saving, distinctive silhouette, futuristic flavor, custom display, condensed, blocky, squared, rounded corners, ink-trap cuts.
A condensed, all-caps-forward display face built from heavy rectangular strokes with softened, rounded outer corners and frequent squared-in notches that act like built-in ink traps. Counters are tight and often rectangular, giving letters a punched, stencil-like feel without fully breaking strokes. Terminals tend to be flat and abrupt, and many joins are sharply cornered, producing a rigid, modular rhythm. Lowercase mirrors the same construction with tall, compact forms and simplified bowls, while figures follow the same narrow, blocky geometry for a consistent texture in headlines.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, punchy headlines, logotypes, packaging titles, and entertainment or game/UI styling where a condensed footprint is useful. It can also work for labels or wayfinding-style graphics when set large enough to keep the internal cut-ins legible.
The overall tone is bold and slightly eccentric—part industrial signage, part arcade/sci‑fi styling. Its angular cuts and compressed proportions read assertive and mechanical, while the softened corners and odd internal notches add a wacky, custom-built character.
The letterforms appear designed to maximize impact in a tight horizontal space while keeping a distinctive, one-off silhouette through notched counters and softened corners. The construction suggests an intention to evoke machine-cut, modular shapes with a playful, experimental twist rather than traditional readability for long text.
The design creates a dark, dense typographic color with minimal whitespace, so spacing and letterfit become a prominent part of the look. Distinctive notches inside forms (notably in curved and closed letters) provide recognition at display sizes but can visually merge at smaller sizes due to the narrow counters.