Sans Contrasted Tife 3 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, branding, packaging, book covers, playful, quirky, handmade, expressive, retro, personality, whimsy, display, distinctiveness, angular, wedgey, chiseled, irregular, lively.
This typeface presents a sans foundation with conspicuous stroke contrast and a distinctly hand-cut rhythm. Strokes often resolve into wedge-like terminals and tapered joins, creating a slightly chiseled look rather than smooth, geometric construction. Curves are full but not perfectly circular, with subtle asymmetries and occasional swelling that make counters feel organic. Proportions vary from glyph to glyph—some letters are compact while others run wider—producing a lively, uneven color across lines while maintaining clear, upright alignment and a stable baseline.
Best suited to display settings where personality is an asset: headlines, posters, packaging, and brand marks that want an artisanal or whimsical voice. It can work for short paragraphs in informal contexts, but the animated rhythm and contrast are most effective at larger sizes and in concise blocks of text.
The overall tone is playful and offbeat, with a crafted, slightly mischievous energy. Its irregularities read as intentional personality—more whimsical than formal—evoking retro display lettering and imaginative, storybook-like titling.
The design appears intended to deliver a friendly, handmade display voice using a sans structure enhanced by high-contrast strokes and wedge terminals. Its controlled irregularity suggests a goal of warmth and distinctiveness while keeping letterforms recognizable and readable.
Distinctive wedge terminals and sharp internal corners give the font a carved, cut-paper feel, especially in diagonals and junctions. The sample text shows that the strong contrast and variable glyph widths create a bouncy texture in longer passages, which emphasizes character over neutrality.