Slab Contrasted Tifi 5 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font visually similar to 'Keratine' by Zetafonts (names referenced only for comparison).
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, brand marks, packaging, western, circus, vintage, playful, rugged, attention, nostalgia, sign painting, impact, display, wedge serifs, bracketed, ink-trap feel, bouncy baseline, chunky.
A heavy, chunky slab-serif with broad, blocky forms and emphatic slab terminals. The serifs read as slightly wedge-like and often subtly bracketed, giving the outlines a carved, poster-cut presence rather than a purely geometric build. Strokes show moderate modulation and small corner cut-ins that add an ink-trap-like bite at joins and inside counters. Proportions vary noticeably across glyphs, with some letters feeling wider and others more compressed, creating a lively, uneven rhythm that stays consistent across the set.
Best suited to display settings where strong personality and immediate impact matter: posters, large headlines, storefront or event signage, and bold packaging callouts. It can also work for short brand phrases or logos where a vintage, showbill-like voice is desired, but its dense color suggests avoiding long body copy at small sizes.
The overall tone is bold, theatrical, and nostalgic, evoking show posters, old-time signage, and frontier or carnival ephemera. Its irregularities and assertive slabs add a friendly roughness that feels energetic and attention-grabbing rather than refined or corporate.
The design appears intended to deliver a high-impact slab-serif voice with a vintage, sign-painter/show-poster sensibility, using varied proportions and slightly carved details to keep the texture animated while remaining highly legible at display sizes.
In the sample text the texture is dense and dark, with strong word shapes driven by the large serifs and chunky stems. The numerals and capitals carry especially strong display impact, while the lowercase maintains the same blocky, poster-like character with sturdy counters and pronounced terminals.