Slab Contrasted Vavo 3 is a very bold, wide, very high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, signage, logos, bold, retro, western, circus, poster, impact, nostalgia, display, attention, bracketed, blocky, sculpted, ink-trap like, ball terminals.
A compact, display-oriented slab serif with chunky, bracketed slabs and strongly sculpted joins. Strokes show pronounced thick–thin modulation, with rounded, teardrop-like terminals and small notch-like cut-ins that create an ink-trap feel at some corners. Counters are fairly open for the weight, and the overall rhythm is energetic, with a slightly irregular, carved silhouette that keeps large sizes lively. Numerals and capitals carry heavy top/bottom emphasis and robust horizontals, reinforcing a sturdy, headline texture.
Best suited to posters, headlines, titles, and branding where a strong, characterful slab serif is needed. It works particularly well for packaging, signage, and logo wordmarks that benefit from a vintage, showy tone and high-impact forms.
The letterforms evoke a vintage showcard and nineteenth-century poster sensibility—confident, theatrical, and a bit folksy. Its bold presence and ornamented shaping read as attention-grabbing and nostalgic rather than neutral or corporate.
The design appears intended to modernize classic display slabs for high-impact typography, combining heavy, bracketed serifs with lively modulation and decorative terminal shaping to create instant presence in short text.
The family feel is consistent across cases, with lowercase forms retaining the same chunky slabs and rounded terminals. The design’s internal notches and swelling strokes add texture that can appear busy at smaller sizes, but become a distinctive detail in large-scale settings.