Serif Normal Hodam 3 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: book text, editorial, longform, literary titles, invitations, literary, classic, warm, formal, humanist, text italic, classic reading, elegant emphasis, editorial tone, warm tradition, bracketed, calligraphic, oldstyle, bookish, flowing.
A serif italic with an oldstyle, calligraphic construction and clearly bracketed serifs. Strokes show moderate contrast with softly tapered terminals and a gently modulated rhythm rather than sharp hairlines. The letterforms lean with a smooth, continuous slant; curves are generous and the joins feel handwritten, especially in the lowercase where counters stay open and the forms remain readable. Proportions are slightly varied across glyphs, giving the face a lively, text-oriented texture while maintaining consistent spacing and a steady baseline.
Well-suited to continuous reading in books and editorial layouts where an italic voice is needed for emphasis or extended passages. It also performs nicely for literary titling, refined packaging copy, and formal announcements that benefit from a classic, humanist italic texture.
The overall tone is literary and traditional, evoking printed books, editorial pages, and classic correspondence. Its italic movement reads expressive and personable without becoming decorative, balancing formality with warmth.
The design appears intended as a conventional, highly readable text serif italic with a gently calligraphic flavor. It aims to provide an elegant emphasis style that stays comfortable at paragraph sizes while retaining a distinctive, oldstyle character.
Capital forms are sturdy and fairly upright in structure while still sharing the italic slant, pairing well with the more fluid lowercase. Numerals follow the same modulated, serifed logic, with rounded figures and a cohesive, text-friendly presence.