Solid Lywa 3 is a very bold, normal width, low contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, stickers, packaging, logotypes, playful, goopy, chunky, retro, cartoon, max impact, novelty display, playful branding, retro flair, blobby, rounded, soft, puffy, hand-drawn.
A heavily weighted, slanted display face built from soft, blobby silhouettes with collapsed counters and minimal interior detail. Strokes feel inflated and brush-like, with rounded terminals and uneven, organic edges that create a lively, irregular rhythm. Letterforms lean forward consistently, while widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, producing a bouncy texture in words. The overall color is dense and inky, prioritizing silhouette recognition over internal structure.
Best suited to short display lines such as headlines, posters, playful packaging, stickers, and logo-style wordmarks where the bold silhouette can carry the message. It performs especially well in high-contrast, large-scale applications and simple layouts where readability is supported by spacing and context.
The font reads as playful and mischievous, with a gooey, cartoon-like personality that feels casual and attention-seeking. Its chunky, softened forms evoke a retro novelty energy suited to fun, informal messaging rather than seriousness or restraint.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact through an exaggerated, ink-heavy silhouette and a forward-leaning, energetic stance. By collapsing counters and emphasizing soft, irregular contours, it aims for a distinctive novelty look that feels hand-formed and expressive.
Because apertures and counters are largely closed, differentiation relies on outer contours and spacing; the face benefits from generous tracking and larger sizes. The strong slant and swollen joins can cause adjacent letters to visually merge in dense settings, especially in lowercase.