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Texas Retro + Monure
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Cowboy western slab
Texas Retro
Texas Retro is a cowboy western slab in brown with a cream outline on an off-white ground: heavy caps with spurred serifs, a swollen waist and closed counters, set on two lines inside an ornamental frame with stars, hairline rules and corner scrolls, and a tracked line beneath.
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Cutting, print & workflow scorecard.
Sturdy stroke walls and open counters weed cleanly on adhesive vinyl, HTV apparel film, and cut cardstock.
Plotter & output verdictEasy-Weed Vinyl & Print Ready
Recommended minimum scale0.75 in+ cap height
Character set & structureUppercase, Lowercase & Numerals
OpenType & PUA accessStandard Latin, Figures & Punctuation
Best surfaces & mediaWood Porch Signs · Laser Acrylic · Bottle & Jar Labels
Compatible design toolsIllustrator · Affinity · Canva Pro · Cricut & Silhouette
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Texas Retro.
The two words are stacked and the drawing is a western slab at heavy weight: the serifs sprout small spurs, the waist swells, and the counters are narrow, which gives the block its period silhouette. The cream outline separates the letters from the ground and lets the brown read as a printed ink rather than a flat fill. The frame does the rest of the work — hairline rules, stars, corner scrolls and a small divider — and the tracked line beneath is set in a condensed caps face. Because the letters are heavy, the face reads at sign scale and on apparel, and the specimen sets it large inside the frame so the spurs are visible.
Western, slab, bold, nostalgic
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Texas Retro with grounded secondary typography.
Expressive Accent Script
Texas Retro + Esmeralda
Adds a warm human signature touch for 1-to-3-word callouts without competing against structured serif capitals.
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Texas Retro’s stroke geometry.
Sign for a barbecue joint
A western slab reads as a smokehouse sign, and the heavy spurs survive in paint at fascia scale where a lighter face would soften.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Paint a 1,300 by 400 mm fascia: the name at 130 mm cap height, a 4 mm outline, and the hours in a 26 mm slab. Keep 30 mm margins and paint two colours on a light board.
Pre-production check
Check the fascia at 130 mm, where a spur can close a counter; keep them above 5 mm. Confirm the 26 mm hours read at four metres and that the outline stays even along the whole word.
Shirt graphic for a country party
A western slab prints as two screens and reads as a themed shirt, and the outline gives the graphic an edge on a dark garment.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 260 mm chest graphic: the phrase at 55 mm cap height, a 3 mm outline, and two inks on a dark shirt. Keep the thinnest serif at 4 mm and place the graphic 80 mm below the collar.
Pre-production check
Check the screen at actual mesh, where a 4 mm serif fills; thicken it. Wash-test one shirt and confirm the outline stays registered after five cycles.
Poster for a rodeo
A western slab gives a rodeo poster the look of a printed bill, and the frame supplies the ornament a period poster expects.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
A2 portrait: the event at 120 mm cap height, the dates in a 24 mm slab, and the venue at 12 mm. Keep 30 mm margins and print two colours on a warm ground with the frame as the border.
Pre-production check
Check the poster at five metres, where the narrow counters can close; keep them above 5 mm. Confirm the 12 mm venue reads at three metres and that the frame clears the trim.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Slab Serif · Cowboy western slab
- Foundry / creator
- WNIdesign
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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