Solid Guno 3 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, stickers, playful, quirky, chunky, retro, cartoon, attention grab, novelty voice, retro feel, silhouette focus, rounded, blobby, soft corners, irregular, compact counters.
A heavy, chunky display face built from rounded, blobby forms with frequent notches and wedge-like cut-ins that create an irregular, hand-cut silhouette. The strokes feel swollen and soft-edged rather than geometric, with simplified joins and compact interior spaces that often collapse into small teardrop or slit-like apertures. Proportions are broad and squat, with uneven widths and a slightly lumpy rhythm across the alphabet, producing a deliberately inconsistent, organic texture in text.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, headlines, logo wordmarks, product packaging, and playful promotional graphics. It works well at larger sizes where its irregular notches and compact apertures can be appreciated without sacrificing readability, and it can add character to titles, labels, and display typography where a bold silhouette is desirable.
The overall tone is playful and eccentric, with a slightly mischievous, cartoon-like presence. Its dense black shapes and quirky bite-marks read as bold and attention-seeking, leaning toward retro novelty and punchy headline energy rather than refined editorial seriousness.
The design appears intended to maximize visual impact through dense, rounded massing and deliberately quirky irregularities. By compressing counters and adding carved-in notches, it prioritizes a distinctive silhouette and a humorous, novelty voice for display use.
In the sample text, the dense silhouettes create strong word-shapes but reduce internal clarity, especially where counters become minimal. The font’s distinctive notched terminals and filled-in interiors give it a stamped or cutout feel, with emphasis on mass and silhouette over detail.