Slab Contrasted Jedo 11 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, packaging, mastheads, industrial, vintage, authoritative, poster-ready, stoic, space-saving impact, display emphasis, industrial tone, vintage poster feel, condensed, slabbed, squared, tall, blocky.
A tall, tightly condensed slab serif with strong vertical emphasis and compact sidebearings. Strokes are largely monolinear with subtle contrast, and terminals end in squared, block-like slabs that read as sturdy and engineered rather than calligraphic. Counters tend toward narrow, rectangular openings, with many curves rendered as rounded-rectangle forms that keep the texture rigid and rhythmic. The overall construction feels modular and consistent, producing a dark, even color and a pronounced vertical cadence in both caps and lowercase.
Best suited for display settings where vertical punch and tight line length are needed, such as posters, headlines, mastheads, and bold labeling. It can also work for short bursts of copy in packaging or editorial callouts where a compact, high-impact voice is desirable. For longer text, it will read strongest at larger sizes where the narrow counters have room to breathe.
The tone is assertive and utilitarian, combining a vintage wood-type spirit with a crisp, industrial discipline. Its compressed proportions and heavy slabs evoke classic poster typography, signage, and headline-driven editorial design. The feel is serious and slightly dramatic, prioritizing impact and structure over softness.
The design appears intended to deliver a compact, high-impact slab serif voice with a rigid, architectural skeleton. By combining condensed proportions with squared curves and prominent slabs, it aims to provide a dependable display face that feels both historic and industrial, optimized for emphatic titles and space-efficient typography.
The condensed width creates a dense typographic texture that stacks well in narrow columns, while the squared bowls and tight apertures increase the sense of compression. Numerals and capitals maintain the same tall, rectilinear logic, giving mixed alphanumeric settings a uniform, disciplined presence.