Slab Contrasted Fare 9 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, logos, signage, western, poster, retro, playful, rugged, impact, vintage feel, branding, blocky, chunky, bracketed, rounded, ink-trap.
A heavy, block-like slab design with squared proportions, softened corners, and pronounced, bracketed serifs that read as sturdy and decorative rather than delicate. Strokes show clear internal shaping: counters and joins are carved with notches and small cut-ins, creating an ink-trap-like rhythm that keeps tight areas open at large sizes. The letterforms are compact and solid, with a tall lowercase presence and short extenders, while uppercase shapes feel broad and stable. Terminals are generally flat and blunt, and the overall construction favors strong verticals with gently rounded interior curves.
Best suited to display typography where mass and character are assets: headlines, posters, branding marks, packaging, and bold signage. It can also work for short subheads and callouts, but the dense weight and decorative carving are most effective when given room to breathe.
The face conveys a bold, frontier-meets-circus energy—confident, punchy, and a bit mischievous. Its chunky slabs and sculpted joints evoke vintage poster printing and workwear signage, giving text a friendly toughness and high-impact presence.
The design appears aimed at delivering maximum impact with a distinctly vintage slab flavor, combining stout, readable silhouettes with decorative notching to suggest traditional printing and bold signage aesthetics.
The notched joins and squared bowls add texture and keep repeated letters from feeling monotonous, especially in large display settings. Numerals are similarly stout and simplified, matching the alphabet’s compact, sign-painting-like cadence.