Solid Gubi 3 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, kids media, stickers, playful, chunky, quirky, comic, retro, attention, humor, handmade, graphic impact, silhouette, soft corners, bulbous, wobbly, heavy, compact counters.
A heavy, rounded display face with chunky strokes and softly irregular contours that create a hand-cut, wobbly rhythm. Many letters show collapsed or pinched interior spaces, with counters that are reduced to small teardrops or disappear in places, giving the alphabet a solid, blocky silhouette. Terminals are blunted and slightly asymmetrical, and curves swell noticeably on forms like C, O, S, and Q, while diagonals (V, W, X) remain thick and wedge-like. Overall spacing reads generous and airy around the outside shapes, while the inner apertures stay tight, emphasizing mass and silhouette over internal detail.
Best suited for short, high-impact applications such as posters, headlines, product packaging, and playful branding where strong silhouette and personality are more important than small-size readability. It also works well for kids-oriented graphics, comic-style titling, and bold display lines that benefit from a dense, graphic texture.
The tone is bold and mischievous, leaning into a cartoony, offbeat personality. Its uneven, hand-made feel suggests humor and informality, with a slightly vintage “cut-paper” or poster-lettering attitude that prioritizes impact and character.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum visual weight with a whimsical, irregular construction, using reduced counters and swollen curves to create a distinctive solid look. It aims to function as a characterful display face that reads as handmade and attention-grabbing rather than typographically neutral.
In text settings, the dense blackness and minimized counters create strong texture and clear word shapes at larger sizes, but the filled or near-filled interior openings can reduce clarity in smaller sizes. Rounded punctuation and dots become prominent graphic elements, reinforcing the playful, poster-like color on the page.