Slab Square Kyhu 5 is a bold, very wide, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, logos, packaging, industrial, gothic, poster, mechanical, vintage, impact, sign lettering, industrial flavor, geometric styling, branding, octagonal, chamfered, ink-trap, angular, stencil-like.
A sharply angular slab serif with chamfered, octagonal curves and pronounced wedge-like joins that create a faceted, machine-cut silhouette. Strokes alternate between thin connecting lines and heavy, blocky feet and terminals, producing a distinctive top-light/bottom-heavy rhythm in many letters. Counters are often polygonal rather than round, and corners are clipped or notched, giving the forms a crisp, engineered texture. The lowercase is compact with a relatively small x-height and tight internal space, while caps and figures feel broad and emphatic, with clear, geometric construction.
Best suited to display settings such as posters, headlines, branding marks, and signage where the faceted slabs and octagonal curves can be appreciated. It can also work for packaging and label-style applications that benefit from a sturdy, industrial voice. For long passages of small text, the strong dark accents and tight counters may reduce comfort, so it performs more reliably at moderate-to-large sizes.
The overall tone feels industrial and slightly gothic, like lettering cut from metal or routed into signage. Its faceted geometry and heavy grounding give it a commanding, poster-forward presence with a vintage display flavor. The sharp notches and engineered corners add a technical, mechanical edge that reads assertive rather than delicate.
The font appears designed to merge slab-serif structure with polygonal, chamfered geometry, emphasizing a grounded baseline and a machined, sign-lettered character. The contrasting stroke behavior and repeated corner cuts suggest an intent to create bold, attention-grabbing letterforms with a distinctive industrial texture in words and numerals.
The design’s repeated chamfers and notched junctions create a consistent ‘cut’ motif across rounds (C/G/O) and diagonals (K/V/W/X/Y). Figures are similarly angular, with polygonal bowls in 0/8/9 and crisp, sign-painter-like construction in 2/3/5. The thin connecting strokes can visually recede at smaller sizes, while the heavy feet and terminals dominate the texture.