Slab Contrasted Elpi 2 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, sports branding, packaging, logos, sporty, retro, assertive, playful, headline, impact, motion, nostalgia, texture, display clarity, blocky, chunky, bracketed, compact, lively.
A heavy, right-leaning slab serif with chunky, block-like forms and pronounced bracketed slabs. Strokes show modest contrast, with broad horizontals and strong verticals that keep counters tight and silhouettes dense. The design uses angled terminals and cut-in notches that create a slightly carved, faceted look, while rounded joins in letters like O, Q, and S soften the mass. Spacing feels sturdy and compact in text, with a consistent forward slant and energetic rhythm across capitals, lowercase, and numerals.
Best suited to display settings where impact and character matter: headlines, posters, event graphics, sports-themed branding, and bold packaging. It can also work for short bursts of text (taglines, labels, pull quotes) where its dense color and forward slant remain readable at larger sizes.
The overall tone is bold and attention-seeking, combining a vintage sign-painting feel with a sporty, poster-ready punch. Its slanted, chiseled details add motion and swagger, giving it a confident, slightly playful attitude that reads as classic Americana and display-forward.
The font appears designed to deliver maximum presence with a fast, dynamic slant and slab-serif solidity, while using carved details to add texture and prevent heavy shapes from feeling monotonous. The combination of chunky slabs, moderate contrast, and lively notches suggests an aim toward retro-inspired, high-impact display typography.
Numerals are broad and weighty, matching the letterforms in density and presence, with shapes that favor strong silhouettes over delicate interior detail. The notched/ink-trap-like cuts and angled serif geometry add texture at large sizes and help keep heavy joins from looking overly blunt.