Slab Square Hiwi 2 is a very bold, very wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font visually similar to 'Henderson Slab' by Sudtipos (names referenced only for comparison).
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, signage, branding, robust, retro, industrial, confident, friendly, impact, heritage, utility, display, blocky, sturdy, compact, bracketless, high-impact.
A heavy slab serif with broad proportions and compact internal spaces. Strokes are monolinear to low-contrast, with thick, square-cut slabs and flat terminals that create a strongly rectangular silhouette. Curves (C, G, O, S) are rounded but reinforced by blunt joins and generous weight, while diagonals (V, W, X, Y, Z) keep a solid, poster-like presence. The lowercase is substantial and wide-set, with sturdy bowls and short, blunt serifs that maintain an even, rhythmic texture in text.
Well-suited to attention-grabbing headlines, posters, and signage where strong presence and durability are priorities. It also fits branding and packaging that aims for a vintage, utilitarian, or heritage-forward impression, and it can work for short blocks of text when set with ample size and spacing.
The overall tone is bold and grounded, with a retro-meets-industrial feel reminiscent of athletic, workwear, and traditional advertising typography. Its mass and squared details read as confident and practical rather than delicate, projecting a straightforward, no-nonsense voice.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a stable, readable structure, pairing wide proportions with square, emphatic slabs for a classic display voice that holds up in bold messaging.
Counters are relatively small for the weight, so the face reads darkest and most unified at display sizes. Numerals and capitals share the same blocky slab logic, giving mixed-case settings a cohesive, uniform density.