Sans Normal Mina 3 is a very bold, very wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, logotypes, signage, playful, retro, chunky, friendly, punchy, impact, approachability, display focus, retro flavor, rounded, blunt, soft-cornered, bulky, geometric.
A heavy, wide sans with rounded, geometric construction and broadly squared outer silhouettes. Strokes are consistently thick with softly blunted terminals and generous curves, producing compact counters and a strong black footprint. The uppercase is blocky and stable, while the lowercase maintains a sturdy, single-storey feel with simplified joins and minimal modulation. Numerals and punctuation follow the same dense, rounded logic, keeping shapes bold and legible at display sizes.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as headlines, posters, product packaging, event graphics, and bold brand marks where its width and weight can carry the layout. It can also work for signage and large-format applications that benefit from friendly, high-visibility letterforms.
The overall tone is upbeat and approachable, combining a toy-like softness with the confidence of oversized, poster-ready forms. Its wide stance and chunky rhythm evoke a retro signage sensibility—cheerful, attention-seeking, and a bit mischievous rather than formal or technical.
This design appears intended as a display sans that prioritizes immediacy and character: wide, rounded shapes for a confident silhouette, simplified details for clarity, and a consistent, chunky rhythm that holds up in big sizes and high-contrast settings.
Spacing appears roomy for such heavy forms, helping prevent letters from visually clogging in longer lines. Round letters (O/C/G/Q) read as broad ovals, and diagonals (V/W/X/Y) are thick and emphatic, reinforcing the font’s strong, graphic presence.