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Wild West Wanted + Taught
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Heavy western wanted slab
Wild West Wanted
Wild West Wanted is a heavy western slab in black on a warm yellow vignette: wide caps with spurred serifs, a swollen waist, heavy strokes and closed counters, shown with a full alphabet and numeral line above and a tracked note beneath announcing the formats.
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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 Wild West Wanted.
The plate leads with the character set rather than a single word, which is the honest choice for a face sold on its swash-like spurs and its numerals: the buyer can scan every letter and digit before looking at the display sample. The drawing is a wanted-poster slab — the serifs sprout points, the waist swells, and the counters are narrow — which keeps the letters legible at a distance while carrying a period flavour. The display sample is set on two lines at a size where the spurs are visible, and the note beneath is a light serif in tracked caps. The palette is one ink on a warm vignette, which reads as an aged poster without a texture overlay.
Western, heavy, slab, nostalgic
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Wild West Wanted with grounded secondary typography.
Expressive Accent Script
Wild West Wanted + High Rise
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 Wild West Wanted’s stroke geometry.
Sign for a western-themed bar
A wanted-poster slab reads as period signage at a glance, and the heavy spurs hold in paint on a fascia where a lighter face would soften.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Paint a 1,200 by 400 mm fascia: the name at 130 mm cap height, the hours in a 26 mm slab, and a 6 mm rule. Keep 30 mm margins and paint one ink on a light board.
Pre-production check
Check the fascia at 130 mm, where a spur can close a counter; keep the counters above 6 mm. Confirm the 26 mm hours read at four metres and that the rule clears the fixings.
Poster for a themed party
A period slab sets a costumed theme instantly, and the numerals in the family let a date and a year be set in the same voice.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
A2 portrait: the event at 110 mm cap height, the date at 40 mm, and the address at 14 mm. Keep 30 mm margins and print one ink on a warm ground so the vignette reads as aged paper.
Pre-production check
Check the poster at five metres, where the narrow counters can close; keep them above 5 mm. Confirm the 40 mm date reads at three metres and that the address clears the display block.
Cover for a frontier novel
A wanted-poster slab gives a frontier novel the tone of a printed notice, and the family's numerals let a series number sit in the same voice.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Set the title at 90 mm cap height across 200 mm, the author in a 12 pt slab, and the series number at 10 mm. Print one ink on a kraft stock and keep an ornamental rule as the only decoration.
Pre-production check
Check the title at thumbnail size, where the spurs can blur; keep the contrast high. Confirm the 10 mm series number reads on the spine and that the title clears the trim by 12 mm.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Slab Serif · Heavy western wanted slab
- Foundry / creator
- squeebcreative
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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