Solid Atpi 3 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, headlines, horror, zines, grunge, handmade, inked, raw, punk, texture, distress, impact, attitude, distressed, blotty, ragged, organic, uneven.
A rough, hand-rendered display face with heavy, solid strokes and intentionally irregular contours. Letterforms show jagged, torn-looking edges, uneven stem widths, and a blotty brush/ink texture that creates a dense silhouette. Many counters are reduced or collapsed, producing chunky shapes and spot-like interiors, while spacing and sidebearings feel loose and inconsistent in a way that reinforces the handmade rhythm. Numerals and capitals carry the same distressed massing, with simplified internal structure and blunt terminals.
Best suited to short, high-impact display use such as posters, gig flyers, album covers, packaging callouts, or editorial headlines that benefit from a distressed, tactile presence. It can also work for horror or grunge-themed titling where uneven color and collapsed counters read as part of the aesthetic rather than a readability requirement.
The overall tone is gritty and rebellious, like stamped ink, rough brush lettering, or distressed screen print. Its inky blobs and imperfect edges feel raw, noisy, and tactile, lending an underground zine/poster energy rather than a polished typographic voice.
The design appears intended to mimic rough ink application—somewhere between brush lettering and stamped print—prioritizing texture and attitude over clean internal clarity. By collapsing many counters and embracing uneven edges, it aims to deliver bold, gritty silhouettes that reproduce the feel of worn print or handmade lettering.
In text settings, darker letters (notably rounded forms with collapsed counters) create strong black spots that add visual texture but can interrupt even color across a line. The distressed perimeter is consistent across cases, giving the font a coherent, intentionally worn character.