Sans Contrasted Tiba 7 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, logos, children’s media, playful, quirky, hand-cut, retro, whimsical, personality, handmade feel, display impact, retro tone, friendly voice, angular, tapered, bouncy, irregular, flared terminals.
A compact, lively sans with subtly irregular geometry and noticeable tapering through stems and joins. Many strokes lean toward wedge-like, flared terminals, creating a hand-cut, slightly chiseled feel rather than a mechanically uniform build. Curves are broad and simplified, while corners are crisp and often asymmetrically trimmed, producing a gently “wobbly” rhythm across lines. Proportions stay relatively tight, with small apertures and sturdy bowls that keep the overall color dense and poster-ready.
Best suited to display use where personality is the goal: posters, book covers, event titles, packaging, and branding marks that benefit from a handcrafted, retro-leaning voice. It can also work for short UI labels or pull quotes when a playful, distinctive texture is desired, but the irregular forms are most effective at larger sizes.
The font conveys a playful, quirky tone with a homemade confidence—like cut paper signage or a mid-century display headline with a mischievous twist. Its uneven details and bouncy rhythm feel friendly and informal, lending character and charm rather than strict neutrality.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, characterful sans that reads clearly while avoiding sterile precision. By combining compact proportions with tapered strokes and deliberately uneven shaping, it aims to feel handmade and energetic in headline typography.
The texture becomes more expressive in text settings, where alternating straight-and-curved constructions and the tapered terminals create a lightly jittery cadence. Numerals and capitals maintain the same hand-shaped logic, helping headlines and short phrases feel cohesive and stylized.