Sans Contrasted Igpa 3 is a very bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, packaging, signage, retro, playful, chunky, display, graphic, impact, branding, novelty, display clarity, retro flavor, rounded, geometric, stencil-like, ball terminals, ink-trap.
A heavy, geometric sans with compact counters, softened corners, and pronounced internal cutouts that create a stencil-like, ink-trap feel. Curves are built from near-circular bowls (notably in O/Q/6/9) paired with blunt, squared stems and flat terminals, producing a strong black footprint. Several glyphs feature distinctive interior notches and teardrop/ball-like apertures that increase contrast between solid mass and negative space, while diagonals (V/W/X/Y) stay broad and stable. Overall spacing reads open for the weight, with clear separation between characters despite the dense strokes.
Best suited to large-scale display settings such as headlines, poster titles, brand marks, and packaging where its dense silhouettes and graphic counters can read cleanly. It can also work for short signage and punchy callouts, but its strong personality and tight apertures make it less ideal for long-form text at small sizes.
The tone is bold and upbeat, with a retro sign-painting and mid-century poster energy. Its exaggerated weight and quirky internal cutouts give it a friendly, attention-grabbing character that feels more playful than corporate, and more illustrative than purely utilitarian.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a distinctive, branded voice: a bold geometric base enlivened by decorative internal cutouts for extra character and improved counter definition. It aims for high visibility and memorable shapes rather than neutrality, making it well aligned with editorial and promotional typography.
The uppercase set feels particularly monumental and blocky, while the lowercase introduces more idiosyncratic forms (single-storey a, looped g, and a tall, narrow i with a rounded head). Numerals are highly stylized with prominent cutouts, enhancing recognizability at large sizes. The overall rhythm is consistent, but the design intentionally embraces novelty through repeated interior “bites” and circular apertures.