Solid Hily 10 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, stickers, event flyers, playful, quirky, grunge, cartoon, handmade impact, textural display, silhouette-first, comic tone, chunky, hand-cut, torn-edge, blobby, irregular.
A chunky, all-caps-and-lowercase display face built from heavy, compact shapes with strongly irregular, torn-looking outer contours. Counters are largely collapsed into solid masses, leaving only occasional small notches and apertures, so letters read as silhouettes rather than line-and-counter constructions. Strokes are uneven with abrupt angles, dents, and flattened terminals, creating a cut-paper or stamped feel. Spacing and sidebearings appear loose and inconsistent by design, producing a lurching rhythm that emphasizes its handmade character.
Best suited for display settings such as posters, punchy headlines, packaging callouts, stickers, or event flyers where a bold, handmade impact is desired. It works well for playful or spooky themes and short bursts of text, especially when ample size and spacing are available to preserve recognition.
The overall tone is mischievous and energetic, with a scrappy, DIY attitude. Its rough edges and filled-in interiors push it toward a comic, spooky, or prankster mood rather than anything refined or formal. The texture reads as intentionally imperfect—more crafted than engineered.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum visual punch through solid, counterless letterforms and intentionally rough, hand-cut edges. It prioritizes expressive silhouette and texture over typographic regularity, aiming for a distinctive novelty voice that feels crafted and slightly chaotic.
Legibility holds up best at larger sizes where the distinctive silhouettes can be recognized quickly; at smaller sizes, the collapsed counters and jagged contours can make similar forms converge. The numerals share the same solid, cutout approach, matching the alphabet’s rugged rhythm.