Solid Sole 2 is a very bold, wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, event titles, playful, retro, geometric, chunky, toy-like, graphic impact, retro display, playful branding, modular system, iconic silhouettes, stencil-like, modular, angular, rounded, blocky.
A chunky display face built from simple geometric masses—circles, wedges, and cut rectangles—rendered as solid silhouettes with counters largely collapsed. Curves are broad and circular, while many joins and terminals are sharply chamfered, creating a stencil-like rhythm of bites and notches across letters. The baseline feel is steady and upright, with compact apertures, simplified bowls, and a modular construction that keeps forms consistent while allowing some letters to vary in width. Numerals and punctuation follow the same cut-and-block logic, favoring bold, easily silhouetted shapes over interior detail.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings such as posters, big headlines, branding marks, packaging callouts, and event titles. It also works well for playful signage or retro-themed graphics where strong silhouettes and decorative rhythm are more important than small-size readability.
The overall tone is playful and quirky, with a distinctly retro, poster-era personality. Its chunky geometry reads as friendly and graphic, evoking cut-paper shapes or early digital/arcade lettering. The repeated notches and wedge cuts add a mischievous, puzzle-like energy that feels more illustrative than typographic.
The design appears intended as a graphic, solid display alphabet that prioritizes bold silhouettes and a distinctive system of geometric cut-ins over conventional counterforms. Its construction suggests a modular, shape-driven approach meant to create memorable letterforms for branding and large-scale typography.
Because interior openings are minimized, differentiation relies on outer silhouettes and the placement of cut-ins; this makes the font most effective at larger sizes where those bites and chamfers are clearly resolved. The sample text shows strong word-shape density and high visual impact, but a deliberately idiosyncratic texture in continuous reading.