Sans Normal Ikmet 3 is a bold, wide, monoline, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, logos, posters, packaging, titles, playful, retro, friendly, techy, bubbly, distinctive display, retro-futurism, friendly branding, modular geometry, rounded, soft terminals, geometric, modular, high contrast spacing.
A heavy, rounded sans with uniform stroke thickness and generously softened corners throughout. Letterforms lean on circular and pill-shaped geometry, with many joins resolved as rounded cut-ins or separated segments that create small notches and gaps. Counters are compact and often near-circular, and the overall proportions feel roomy and broad, giving the design a chunky silhouette. The rhythm is built from repeated curved modules, producing a consistent, sculpted look across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals.
Best suited for display applications where its rounded geometry and intentional gaps can be appreciated: headlines, branding marks, posters, packaging, and short UI or game title treatments. It can also work for signage or labels when set with ample size and spacing, but it is less ideal for long-form reading or very small text.
The tone is upbeat and approachable, with a distinctly retro-futuristic flavor. Its bubbly shapes and segmented details add a toy-like, arcade or space-age character while still reading as a clean sans at display sizes. Overall it feels friendly and stylized rather than strictly utilitarian.
The design appears intended to deliver a distinctive rounded-geometric voice with a modular, slightly stencil-like construction. It emphasizes character and memorability through repeated curved components, soft terminals, and playful interruptions in strokes, aiming for a modern-retro display feel.
Distinctive stencil-like separations appear in several glyphs (notably in curves and terminals), which increases personality but can reduce clarity at small sizes. The lowercase is simple and rounded, with single-storey forms and minimal contrast between straight and curved strokes. Numerals match the letterforms with rounded corners and occasional cut-ins that echo the alphabet’s modular logic.