Slab Square Pene 3 is a regular weight, wide, monoline, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, logos, signage, posters, packaging, techy, retro, industrial, utilitarian, sci‑fi, geometric system, display clarity, technical branding, retro modernism, rounded corners, square terminals, stencil-like, modular, geometric.
This typeface is built from consistent, monoline strokes with squared-off terminals and slab-like serifs, softened by rounded corners. Curves are drawn as broad, rectangular arcs (notably in C, G, O, and U), producing a modular, almost engineered rhythm. Counters tend to be open and squarish, with clear horizontal cuts and short bracketless joins that give many letters a slightly segmented, stencil-like construction. Overall spacing reads generous and the forms feel wide and steady, with crisp baselines and strong, flat-ended details.
It performs best in headlines and short-to-medium text where its geometric construction and slab terminals can read as intentional design features. The wide set and open forms make it suitable for signage, labels, and packaging systems that benefit from clear silhouettes and a technical, modern-retro character.
The overall tone is functional and machine-made, blending a mid‑century industrial feel with a futuristic, display-oriented edge. Its squared geometry and rounded corners create a friendly but technical voice—more equipment-label than editorial—suited to designs that want structure and clarity without looking fragile.
The design appears intended to translate slab-serif authority into a geometric, square-arc system, prioritizing consistency and a modular feel over calligraphic nuance. Its construction suggests a focus on display clarity and a distinctive, engineered texture for branding and interface-adjacent graphics.
Distinctive details include a Q with a pronounced vertical/descender-like tail, a sharply angled diagonal in the zero, and numerals that echo the same square-arc logic as the capitals. The lowercase maintains the same constructed DNA, with compact, straight-sided bowls and minimal contrast, helping the texture stay uniform across mixed-case settings.