Slab Square Hisy 3 is a bold, wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, sports branding, packaging, signage, sturdy, confident, industrial, collegiate, retro, impact, durability, legibility, brand authority, classic display, blocky, square-cut, bracketless, high impact, compact joins.
A heavy, slab-serif typeface with broad proportions and a firm, rectangular build. Strokes maintain an even weight with minimal modulation, and terminals finish in flat, square-ended slabs that read crisp and mechanical. Counters are generously open for the weight, while joins and inner corners stay tight, giving the letterforms a dense, poster-ready rhythm. The overall texture is dark and steady, with robust serifs that help shapes lock together cleanly in lines of text.
Best suited for short to medium display settings where impact and clarity matter: headlines, posters, signage, sports or team-style branding, and bold packaging callouts. It can work for brief text blocks at larger sizes, especially when a strong, traditional slab-serif presence is desired.
The tone is assertive and workmanlike, projecting strength and reliability. Its blocky slabs and wide stance evoke classic American display typography—part collegiate, part industrial—making it feel bold and direct rather than delicate or refined.
This design appears intended to deliver maximum presence and legibility with a straightforward, square-cut slab structure. The wide proportions and unwavering stroke weight suggest a focus on confident display typography that remains readable and stable under heavy visual emphasis.
Round letters (like O and C) keep a squared-off, engineered feeling due to the flat terminals and sturdy stroke endings, while diagonals and angled joins remain blunt and substantial. The numerals match the same weight and rigidity, supporting a consistent, high-contrast-in-mass (but not in stroke) headline color.