Script Ohti 3 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: branding, packaging, posters, headlines, menus, friendly, expressive, retro, casual, lively, handcrafted feel, display impact, warmth, retro flavor, informal elegance, brushy, rounded, looping, slanted, bouncy.
A slanted, brush-pen script with smooth, swelling strokes and tapered terminals that suggest rapid, confident handwriting. Letterforms are rounded and slightly condensed with a lively baseline rhythm, mixing open bowls with occasional looped entries and exits. Strokes show clear pressure modulation, with thicker downstrokes and finer hairline joins, and the overall texture reads dark and energetic without feeling rigidly geometric. Capitals are more embellished and loopy than the lowercase, while figures follow the same handwritten logic with soft curves and angled stress.
Best suited to short-to-medium display settings where personality matters: logos, product packaging, café and restaurant menus, social graphics, and poster headlines. It can also work for pull quotes or section headers in editorial layouts, where the energetic texture adds emphasis and a handcrafted feel.
The font conveys an upbeat, personable tone—informal but polished enough to feel intentionally styled. Its flowing strokes and bouncy rhythm bring a nostalgic, mid-century sign-painting or café-menu character, leaning warm and welcoming rather than formal or ceremonial.
The design appears intended to emulate brush lettering with controlled contrast and a consistent rightward slant, balancing legibility with expressive motion. It aims to deliver a handcrafted, sign-like script that feels dynamic and friendly while remaining clean enough for modern display use.
Connections between letters appear optional in practice: many pairs sit closely with implied joining, while others remain slightly separated, preserving a handwritten cadence. The ampersand is notably bold and decorative, and the numerals have a friendly, cursive-leaning shape that matches the alphabet’s momentum.