Wacky Tuhi 3 is a very bold, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logotypes, packaging, game ui, industrial, techno, arcade, stencil-like, posterish, attention grab, retro tech, graphic stamp, quirky display, condensed, blocky, squared, rounded corners, notched joints.
A condensed, heavy display face built from tall rectangular forms with softened corners and frequent notches or cut-ins that create a quasi-stencil construction. Strokes stay broadly uniform, with small interior counters and occasional slit-like openings that emphasize a vertical, columnar rhythm. The geometry leans square and modular, but the joints and terminals often step, clip, or split, giving the letterforms an intentionally idiosyncratic, engineered feel. Spacing appears tight and the overall texture is dense, producing strong word-shapes at large sizes.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as headlines, posters, branding marks, packaging callouts, and stylized game or arcade-themed interfaces. It performs strongest when given room to breathe and set at larger sizes where the cutouts and notches read clearly.
The font projects a playful industrial attitude—part machine-label, part retro arcade. Its odd cutouts and chunky verticals feel energetic and slightly mischievous, suggesting experimental display typography with a tech-built edge rather than classic refinement.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, compressed silhouette with a quirky, fabricated construction, balancing modular geometry with irregular interruptions. It aims for instant recognition and a strong graphic stamp, prioritizing character and texture over quiet readability in long passages.
Distinctive internal cutouts and occasional split strokes make individual glyphs highly characterful, but they also increase visual noise in continuous text. The numerals match the same blocky, cut-in logic, supporting cohesive headline and numbering systems.