Felka Slab
TYPE BY · Thomas Thiemich
A single-weight display slab by Thomas Thiemich that reduces letterforms to stacked horizontal bars, referencing 19th-century extremes such as Caslon Italian while maintaining a lively, fluid lowercase.
About
Capitals are built from three fat horizontal bars without the customary thin middle bar, intensifying the visual impact common to this lineage of display types. The lowercase resists the mathematical rigidity often seen in similarly reduced designs, staying organic and rhythmic where others go geometric. The family extends across four subfamilies — Slab, Brick, Line and Leaf — with a Latin-Arabic companion for Slab, and thorough OpenType features including lining and oldstyle figures, stylistic alternates and case-sensitive forms.
Classification
Felka Slab draws on 19th-century extreme display types such as Caslon Italian, with capitals built from stacked horizontal bars and a lively lowercase reduced to minimal strokes. Its slab construction and extreme proportions place it firmly in the display category.