Solid Hida 9 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, stickers, packaging, event promos, playful, grungy, cartoon, handmade, rowdy, handmade feel, comic display, rough texture, stamp impact, bold personality, blobby, ragged, chunky, rounded, torn-edge.
A heavy, inked display face with chunky, rounded silhouettes and intentionally uneven contours. Strokes look brush- or marker-driven, with ragged edges, dents, and occasional protrusions that create a torn, cutout feel. Counters are often reduced or partially collapsed, and bowls read as thick blobs with small interior openings. Proportions are broadly wide with irregular letter widths, producing a bouncy rhythm and a deliberately imperfect texture across lines.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, headlines, stickers, packaging callouts, and event promotions where texture and personality are more important than fine detail. It can also work for playful branding elements, title cards, or social graphics when set with generous tracking and line spacing.
The font conveys a mischievous, slapstick energy—somewhere between hand-painted signage and comic lettering. Its rough edges and dense forms add a scrappy, DIY attitude that can feel loud, playful, and slightly chaotic.
Likely designed to emulate a bold, hand-rendered paint/marker look with intentionally imperfect edges and compact interior spaces, prioritizing character and visual punch over neutrality. The consistent roughness and collapsed openings suggest an aim for a solid, stamp-like presence that holds up in loud display contexts.
At smaller sizes the reduced counters and dense joins can cause characters to merge visually, so it reads best when given room. The numerals and uppercase carry the same rough, blotted texture, keeping the set consistent for headline use.