Shadow Ubba 3 is a very light, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, titles, branding, album art, noir, mysterious, sleek, futuristic, dramatic, display impact, stylized legibility, atmosphere, modern stencil, stenciled, cutout, notched, sharp, angular.
A minimalist display face built from thin, broken strokes and deliberate cut-outs that create a hollowed, stenciled look. Curves are drawn as partial arcs with open terminals, while straight segments often stop short or step, producing a crisp, segmented rhythm. The forms mix rounded bowls with sharp, wedge-like joins and occasional tapered diagonals, giving letters a slightly mechanical, constructed feel. Counters are frequently implied rather than fully enclosed, and the overall texture stays airy with lots of negative space.
Best used for headlines, titles, posters, and branding where the hollow cut-outs can be appreciated at display sizes. It can also work for album art, event graphics, or cinematic/tech-themed packaging where a dramatic, shadowed stencil impression supports the concept. For long passages or small UI text, the fragmented strokes may soften legibility.
The cut-out construction and fragmented contours lend a noir, coded tone—like signage seen through blinds or light leaking through slits. It reads as contemporary and slightly sci‑fi, with a cool, stealthy character that feels designed for atmosphere over neutrality.
The design appears intended to reinterpret a clean sans framework through systematic subtractions and offsets, using negative space as a primary stylistic device. Its goal is to deliver a distinctive, high-contrast-in-spirit display voice without relying on heavy weight—favoring precision, rhythm, and atmosphere.
In text settings the repeated gaps and notches create a distinctive sparkle, but they also reduce continuous stroke cues, making it better suited to larger sizes. Numerals and capitals share the same broken-stroke logic, keeping the set visually consistent and emphasizing a graphic, poster-like presence.