Slab Square Kasy 13 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, signage, branding, packaging, industrial, retro, technical, mechanical, gothic, space saving, industrial tone, retro display, technical voice, condensed, angular, squared, slab serif, high-waisted.
A condensed, upright slab-serif with squared construction and a strongly architectural feel. Strokes are mostly straight and vertical, with shallow stepped joints and flat, blocky serifs that read as built-up terminals rather than tapered endings. Corners are crisp and rectangular, with occasional small notches and internal cut-ins that create a machined, stencil-like rhythm. Counters are compact and somewhat rectangular, and the lowercase sits low with a notably small x-height, giving ascenders and capitals a tall, columnar presence.
Best suited to display settings where a compact, high-impact voice is needed—headlines, posters, signage, and identity work. It can also work for short runs of text in labels or interfaces when you want a technical, industrial texture, but its tight counters and condensed spacing favor larger sizes and modest line lengths.
The overall tone is mechanical and retro-futurist, evoking industrial signage, technical labeling, and early display typography. Its narrow stance and rigid geometry feel disciplined and slightly severe, with a faint gothic flavor from the tall proportions and hard-edged detailing.
The design appears intended to deliver a space-efficient, high-contrast silhouette with a distinctly engineered character—combining slab-like weight and square terminals to suggest durability, precision, and a constructed, architectural presence.
Widths vary by character but remain tightly controlled, producing a dense texture in text. The numerals match the same squared, engineered logic, and the punctuation-like dots are small and precise, reinforcing a utilitarian, systemized look.