Sans Contrasted Takej 3 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, branding, packaging, logos, playful, retro, friendly, chunky, bubbly, high impact, approachability, playfulness, retro tone, display readability, soft, rounded, bulky, bouncy, high-ink.
A heavy, rounded sans with exaggerated, bulbous terminals and gently swelling strokes that create a soft, inflated silhouette. Curves are dominant and counters are large and open, with a lively, uneven rhythm where stems and bowls subtly flare and pinch. The uppercase feels compact and blocky with simplified geometry, while the lowercase introduces more personality through single-storey forms and chunky joins. Numerals follow the same rounded, poster-like construction, prioritizing strong mass and clear silhouettes over linear precision.
Best suited for headlines, posters, and packaging where its chunky, rounded forms can provide strong shelf impact. It also works well for branding and logo wordmarks that want a friendly, retro-leaning personality, as well as social graphics and titles that benefit from bold, characterful letterforms.
The overall tone is upbeat and approachable, with a retro display flavor that reads as fun, casual, and slightly mischievous. Its rounded forms and bouncy stroke modulation give it a welcoming, cartoon-adjacent voice that feels energetic rather than formal.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum warmth and visibility through soft geometry and lively stroke shaping, creating a distinctive, high-impact display voice. It favors expressive silhouettes and a playful rhythm to make short phrases and titles feel energetic and approachable.
The font’s visual identity comes from its soft-edged weight and expressive stroke shaping, which produces distinctive word images at larger sizes. In longer text blocks it maintains a strong presence, but its playful irregularities and heavy color make it feel more at home as a headline or branding face than as a quiet workhorse.