Solid Leve 9 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, packaging, album art, chunky, playful, retro, toy-like, puffy, impact, playfulness, graphic texture, retro flavor, rounded, blocky, blobby, soft-cornered, monoline-ish.
A heavy, rounded display face built from swollen rectangular forms with large corner radii and flattened curves. Strokes stay consistently thick, with most counters collapsed or reduced to small slits and notches, producing a predominantly solid silhouette. Terminals are blunt and soft, and many joins pinch into gentle concavities that create a lumpy, modular rhythm across the alphabet. Overall spacing reads generous due to the bulky shapes and simplified interior detailing.
Best suited for large-scale display typography where its solid shapes and quirky silhouettes can be read quickly—posters, attention-grabbing headlines, brand marks, packaging, and playful editorial callouts. It can also work for titles in games or entertainment contexts where a chunky, graphic texture is desirable.
The tone is bold and humorous, with a squishy, almost toy-block character that feels intentionally quirky. Its solid, cut-out details and rounded geometry evoke a retro-futurist and arcade-like mood while staying friendly rather than aggressive.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum visual impact through simplified, solid letterforms and rounded, inflated geometry. By minimizing counters and using distinctive notches and cut-ins, it prioritizes a bold graphic presence and a playful, stylized voice over conventional text readability.
Legibility relies strongly on outer silhouettes and distinctive notches rather than internal counters, so letter recognition improves at larger sizes. The numeral set matches the same solid, rounded construction, keeping the texture uniform in headlines and short bursts of text.