Slab Contrasted Ohho 3 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, packaging, logos, western, circus, playful, retro, sturdy, display impact, vintage flavor, decorative texture, signage voice, blocky, rounded, soft corners, ink-trap notches, inline cutouts.
A heavy, block-based serif with broad proportions and prominent slab-like terminals. The design features distinctive internal cut-ins and notched corners that create high-contrast voids within otherwise solid shapes, giving many letters an “inline cutout” effect. Curves are generous and rounded (notably in O/C/G and the lowercase bowls), while verticals and serifs remain blunt and rectangular, producing a strong, poster-like silhouette. Spacing appears built for display impact, with irregular interior shaping that adds texture and rhythm across words.
Best suited to display settings such as posters, big headlines, event flyers, storefront signage, and branding marks where a strong silhouette is needed. It can also work on packaging and labels when a retro or Western-flavored voice is desired, especially in short bursts of text.
The overall tone is bold and theatrical, evoking vintage show posters, carnival signage, and Western display lettering. Its decorative notches add a mischievous, attention-grabbing personality that feels nostalgic and slightly tongue-in-cheek rather than formal.
The font appears designed to merge sturdy slab-serif construction with decorative interior notching, producing a memorable, high-impact display style. The goal seems to be instant recognizability and period-tinged character while retaining simple, robust letterforms that hold up at large sizes.
The distinctive corner notches and interior cutouts become a key identifying feature at text sizes, creating a patterned “bite” along joins and terminals. In longer lines, these cuts add visual sparkle but also introduce busy detail, making the face better suited to shorter phrases where the shapes can be appreciated.