Slab Contrasted Egvu 3 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, sports branding, packaging, headlines, signage, athletic, retro, assertive, playful, headline, impact, retro display, sports tone, logo-ready, attention-grab, blocky, chunky, bracketed, ink-trap, cartoonish.
A heavy, right-slanted slab serif with broad proportions and compact internal counters. The letterforms are built from chunky, sculpted strokes with noticeable wedge-like joins and bracketed slab terminals. Many glyphs show small notches and cut-ins at corners and joins, creating a chiseled, ink-trap-like texture that keeps counters from closing up at display sizes. Curves are round and full (notably in O, C, S), while verticals and horizontals remain stout and square-shouldered, giving the design a distinctly poster-like rhythm.
Best suited to display typography such as posters, sports branding, product packaging, and bold editorial headlines where maximum impact is needed. It can work well for short bursts of copy—logos, titles, and callouts—especially when a retro, energetic voice is desired.
The overall tone is bold and extroverted, with a sporty, vintage flavor reminiscent of classic signage and team lettering. Its exaggerated weight and lively slant add momentum and a slightly mischievous, cartoon-adjacent energy that feels confident and attention-seeking rather than refined.
The design appears intended to deliver strong shelf-and-distance readability through mass, wide stance, and carved corner detailing that preserves shapes as sizes shrink. Its slab terminals and sculpted joins suggest a goal of combining classic slab authority with an animated, contemporary display punch.
The uppercase reads particularly compact and impactful, with tight apertures and short, thick serifs that emphasize mass. The lowercase maintains the same carved detailing and sturdy texture, and the numerals are similarly hefty and rounded, suited to big, high-impact settings where shape is more important than fine detail.