Shadow Wadi 3 is a regular weight, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, packaging, game titles, dramatic, mysterious, theatrical, retro, gothic, add depth, create drama, evoke gothic, faceted, angular, notched, chiseled, cutout.
A decorative display face built from bold, wide letterforms with crisp, angular terminals and consistent cut-out notches that read like internal voids. Many strokes appear partially “sliced” with small triangular removals and sharp step-like joins, creating a faceted, chiseled texture across the alphabet. Curves (C, O, G, S) keep a round backbone but are interrupted by pointed gaps and wedge cuts, while straighter letters (E, F, H, N) emphasize hard corners and slab-like horizontals. The overall rhythm is graphic and high-impact, with sturdy silhouettes and deliberately interrupted counters that produce a shadowy, layered impression in text.
Best suited to short, attention-grabbing settings where the cut-out detailing can read clearly: posters, event or show promotions, game and fantasy/occult-themed titles, branding marks, and packaging accents. It works especially well at medium-to-large sizes and in high-contrast color applications where the internal cuts and shadowy interruptions stay crisp.
The tone feels darkly playful and theatrical, mixing a pseudo-medieval or gothic flavor with a poster-like, retro showcard energy. The repeated notches and sliced forms add tension and intrigue, giving headlines a slightly ominous, magical, or villain-coded personality.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold display voice with built-in intrigue—using repeated internal cut-outs and sharp, chiseled forms to suggest depth, shadow, and ornament without relying on thin outlines or delicate detailing.
Lowercase forms largely echo the uppercase construction, keeping the same notched geometry and producing a cohesive texture in mixed-case setting. Numerals follow the same cut-and-wedge logic, maintaining visual consistency for titling and short numeric strings.