Slab Contrasted Elme 3 is a very bold, very wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, packaging, logos, western, circus, vintage, bold, playful, attention, nostalgia, show poster, impact, character, blocky, wedge serif, beveled, flared, ink-trap feel.
A heavy, display-oriented slab with broad proportions and chunky, squared forms. Strokes are thick and confident, with subtle internal shaping that reads like beveled corners and small notches where joints meet, creating an ink-trap-like bite in several letters. Serifs are slabby and often wedge-flared, with short, sturdy terminals and a generally rectangular construction softened by rounded counters. The rhythm is assertive and compact in spacing, and the tall lowercase gives the text a dense, poster-like color at size.
Best suited to high-impact headlines, posters, and large-scale signage where the bold slabs and notched details remain crisp. It can work well for packaging, event branding, and logo wordmarks that want a vintage showcard or Western billboard flavor, and it holds up particularly well in short phrases and titling.
The overall tone evokes show posters and Western-influenced lettering: loud, theatrical, and a bit mischievous. Its carved and notched details add a handcrafted, woodtype-adjacent character that feels nostalgic and attention-seeking rather than neutral or corporate.
The design appears intended as a high-visibility display slab that borrows from woodtype and show-poster traditions, using flared slabs and small cut-in details to create personality and texture while maintaining strong, blocky legibility.
In longer settings the strong weight and tight internal spaces can cause counters (especially in rounded letters and numerals) to feel small, which reinforces the display nature. The distinctive notches and flares become a key texture across words, so it performs best when that texture is allowed to read clearly.