Slab Square Naraj 3 is a very bold, wide, high contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, sports branding, posters, packaging, signage, collegiate, industrial, retro, assertive, blocky, impact, ruggedness, heritage, team spirit, octagonal, engraved, sturdy, compact, posterlike.
A heavy, block-built slab serif with squared shoulders, crisp right angles, and distinctive octagonal chamfers that clip many outer corners. Strokes are thick with sharp interior notches and tight counters, creating a compact, high-impact silhouette. Serifs read as broad, bracketless slabs that often merge seamlessly into stems, while curves are minimized and simplified into faceted geometry. Lowercase forms keep a robust, upright structure with a tall x-height and short extenders, maintaining an even, dense color across words and lines.
This face is well-suited to short, high-impact applications such as headlines, sports and team branding, event posters, and bold packaging marks. It also fits wayfinding and signage where a tough, geometric slab presence is desired. In longer passages it can feel visually dense, so it’s most effective for display typography and emphatic pull quotes.
The overall tone is bold and no-nonsense, with a classic collegiate and athletic signage feel. Its faceted corners and carved-in look evoke vintage sports lettering, industrial labeling, and old poster headlines. The impression is confident, sturdy, and slightly nostalgic rather than delicate or refined.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum visual weight and a recognizable, cut-corner slab personality for display use. Its simplified, faceted construction and sturdy slabs prioritize punchy legibility at larger sizes and a classic athletic/industrial voice. The consistent geometric rhythm suggests it was drawn to look cohesive in all-caps settings while still keeping lowercase usable for modern headline typography.
The font’s chamfered geometry is consistent across caps, lowercase, and numerals, giving text a uniform, emblem-like presence. Counters and apertures are relatively small, so the design reads best when allowed enough size or spacing to keep interiors from feeling cramped. Numerals match the same squared, cut-corner construction, supporting cohesive headline and display setting.