Slab Normal Remy 3 is a very bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font visually similar to 'Narevik' by ParaType (names referenced only for comparison).
Keywords: headlines, posters, signage, packaging, branding, sturdy, western, poster, collegiate, industrial, impact, legibility, tradition, utility, bracketed, chunky, ink-trap-like.
A heavy, slab-serif design with broad proportions and a compact internal rhythm. Strokes are thick with noticeable contrast between main stems and thinner joins, and terminals end in firm, squared serifs that read as slightly bracketed. Counters are relatively tight in many letters, contributing to a dense, high-impact texture, while rounded forms (O, C, G, 0) keep a soft, inflated feel. The lowercase shows a robust, workmanlike build with a sturdy single-storey a and g, a high-contrast t with a strong crossbar, and generally short extenders that keep lines visually compact.
This font is best suited to display settings where strong presence is needed: headlines, posters, storefront or wayfinding signage, bold packaging, and brand marks that want a dependable, traditional voice. It can work for short bursts of text such as subheads or pull quotes, but its dense color suggests more selective use for longer passages.
The overall tone is confident and no-nonsense, evoking vintage print, utilitarian signage, and classic poster typography. Its weight and slab structure communicate durability and authority, with a faint old-west and collegiate headline flavor in the silhouettes.
The design appears intended as a straightforward, highly legible slab-serif for attention-grabbing typography—combining classic slab construction with broad, poster-ready proportions and a consistent, sturdy rhythm across letters and figures.
The numerals are blocky and emphatic, matching the letterforms’ compact counters and strong slab endings. In the text sample, the font creates a dark, even typographic color that favors impact over airiness, with punctuation and dots appearing bold and prominent at display sizes.