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Waiting Friends + Memoir Slang
Creates crisp high-hierarchy contrast beneath Waiting Friends headlines across menus, websites and labels.
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Wide scratched athletic slab
Waiting Friends
Waiting Friends is a wide athletic slab in cream on a dark scuffed ground: heavy capitals with thick square serifs, flat terminals and fine horizontal scratches across the fill, set in two lines between an arced line above 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 & mediaBrand Packaging · Social Graphics · Vinyl Decals
Compatible design toolsIllustrator · Affinity · Canva Pro · Cricut & Silhouette
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Waiting Friends.
The two words are stacked and the drawing is an athletic slab at a wide setting: the serifs are thick and square, the letters are broad, and the wear is a fine horizontal scratching rather than a heavy distress, so the block reads as printed and handled rather than as damaged. That construction sets a moderate size floor, and the plate sets the block large enough that the scratches register as texture. The dark scuffed ground is staging that matches the wear, and the arced line above and the tracked line beneath are plain caps. Because the letters are heavy and wide, the face suits a banner, a shirt and a poster, and the wide setting means a long name takes a lot of width, which is the trade a buyer makes for presence.
Slab, wide, worn, athletic
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Waiting Friends with grounded secondary typography.
Expressive Accent Script
Waiting Friends + Hailey
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 Waiting Friends’s stroke geometry.
Banner for a team reunion
A wide slab reads as team kit, and the scratched fill makes a plain name look printed rather than typed on a banner. Scratches make a name look worn in, not new.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print 1,300 by 480 mm: the team at 150 mm cap height, the year in a 32 mm slab, and one colour on light vinyl. Keep 30 mm margins and keep the wear above 3 mm.
Pre-production check
Check the banner at ten metres, where the scratches can look like dirt; keep them fine and even. Confirm the 32 mm year reads at five metres and that the eyelets clear the block.
Shirt graphic for a game day
A scratched slab prints in one screen and looks broken in from the first wear, which suits a casual supporters' shirt. It prints in one screen with no gradient.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 250 mm chest graphic: the slogan at 60 mm cap height, the year at 28 mm, and one ink on a light shirt. Keep the narrowest counter 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 counter can fill; open the spacing. Wash-test one shirt and confirm the scratches stay visible after five cycles.
Sign for a sports bar
A worn slab reads as a venue with history, and the heavy strokes hold on a board that faces the street in all weather. A bar with history reads better than a new one.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Paint a 1,000 by 380 mm board: the bar at 110 mm cap height, the fixtures in a 22 mm slab, and a 5 mm rule. Keep 25 mm margins and paint two colours on a primed board.
Pre-production check
Check the board at five metres, where the wear can look like peeling paint; keep it even. Confirm the 22 mm fixtures read at two metres and that the rule survives a wet season.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Slab Serif · Wide scratched athletic slab
- Foundry / creator
- Damai (7NTypes)
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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