Sans Other Ablab 3 is a very bold, wide, low contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, kids, stickers, playful, chunky, cartoony, quirky, friendly, impact, approachability, handmade, humor, display, rounded, bouncy, wobbly, soft corners, bulbous.
A heavy, compact sans with inflated strokes and softly rounded corners, shaped with a deliberately uneven, hand-cut rhythm. Curves are generous and slightly lopsided, and many joins show subtle angularity that keeps the silhouettes lively rather than geometric. Counters are small to moderate for the weight, with open apertures and simplified interior shapes that read clearly at display sizes. Widths vary noticeably across characters, reinforcing an informal, animated texture across words and lines.
Best suited to headlines, logos, posters, and packaging where a fun, chunky voice is desirable. It works well for children’s titles, playful branding, event graphics, and short emphatic copy. For small sizes or dense paragraphs, the heavy color and tight counters may reduce legibility, so it’s strongest in display settings.
The overall tone is cheerful and comic, with a bouncy, slightly mischievous energy. Its irregularities feel intentional and personable, suggesting hand-made signage or children’s media rather than corporate neutrality. The strong black presence gives it confident impact while staying approachable.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a friendly, hand-drawn feel—combining thick, soft-edged shapes with subtle irregularity to create a lively, cartoon-like voice for attention-grabbing display typography.
The figures are bold and simple, with rounded forms and a friendly, poster-like presence; some glyphs lean into quirky asymmetry that adds character in headlines. The alphabet shows consistent weight and soft terminals, producing a dense, high-contrast-in-mass texture well suited to short bursts of text rather than long reading.