Slab Contrasted Lyvu 1 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, packaging, signage, retro, industrial, playful, arcade, chunky, impact, retro display, graphic branding, signage strength, playful utility, blocky, rounded, inky, stencil-like, soft corners.
A heavy, block-constructed slab serif with rounded corners and softened terminals that keep the dense shapes from feeling overly sharp. Counters are small and often rendered as rounded rectangles or horizontal slots, giving many letters a cut-out, almost stencil-like interior. Strokes are predominantly uniform with occasional stepped joins and squared-off turns, creating a mechanical, modular rhythm. The lowercase is compact and robust with a tall x-height, while numerals and capitals maintain broad, rectangular silhouettes and a consistently weighty color on the page.
Best suited to display settings where impact matters—posters, headlines, branding marks, packaging, and bold signage. It holds up well at larger sizes where the distinctive slot-like counters and slab details can read clearly, and it can add a retro-industrial flavor to short lines of text.
The overall tone is bold and tactile, blending retro display energy with an industrial, game-like punch. Its cut-out counters and chunky slabs evoke signage, arcade era graphics, and playful utility rather than refinement or delicacy.
Likely designed to deliver maximum presence with a distinctive cut-out slab vocabulary, combining sturdy, sign-painter robustness with a playful, retro-mechanical personality. The consistent, modular construction suggests an emphasis on bold readability and graphic character for attention-driven typography.
The design relies on strong internal negative shapes for character definition, so spacing and counters play a major role in legibility. The forms feel intentionally simplified and geometric, with a slightly “inked” softness from the rounded outer corners and interior slots.