Solid Ipfi 3 is a very bold, narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, sports branding, merchandise, retro, rowdy, cartoonish, sporty, punchy, maximum impact, speed cue, graphic silhouette, retro display, playful grit, slanted, brushy, blobby, high-ink, compressed.
A heavy, right-slanted display face with compact proportions and a brush-script influence. Strokes are thick and tapered, with rounded terminals and frequent wedge-like joins that create a fast, swept rhythm. Counters are largely reduced or fully closed, turning many forms into solid silhouettes; this is especially evident in letters like O, P, R, and B. The lowercase is small relative to the capitals, and the overall texture reads dense and inky, with irregular, slightly jagged edges that feel hand-cut rather than mechanically smooth.
Best suited for large-scale applications where its solid, slanted silhouettes can read as graphic shapes: headlines, posters, packaging callouts, and logo or wordmark explorations. It can also work for sports- or stunt-themed branding and merchandise graphics where impact matters more than fine detail. For longer text, it benefits from generous size and looser spacing to preserve letter separation.
The font conveys a bold, energetic attitude with a retro, shouty tone. Its dark massing and slanted movement suggest speed and impact, leaning toward playful bravado rather than refinement. The collapsed interiors add a gritty, poster-like punch that feels intentionally over-inked and attention-grabbing.
The design appears aimed at delivering maximum visual impact through dense, inked-in forms and a brisk italic flow. By minimizing counters and emphasizing chunky, brush-like contours, it prioritizes bold personality and immediate presence for display typography rather than conventional readability.
In the sample text, the high black coverage produces strong emphasis but also causes letters to merge visually at smaller sizes or tighter tracking. The forms rely more on outer contours than internal detail, so spacing and size have an outsized effect on clarity. Numerals match the same slanted, heavy, solid treatment for consistent headline texture.