Sans Contrasted Lerus 3 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, book covers, packaging, branding, playful, whimsical, hand-cut, storybook, retro, expressive display, handmade feel, retro charm, theatrical impact, playful tone, quirky, angular, flared, calligraphic, bouncy.
A lively contrasted sans with uneven, hand-made construction and a slightly bouncy baseline feel. Strokes swing between thick and very thin, with tapered terminals that often flare into wedge-like ends, giving many letters a cut-paper or brush-pen look. Bowls are irregular and sometimes pinched, counters vary noticeably in size, and widths change from glyph to glyph, producing an animated, variable rhythm. The overall silhouette is sharp and angular in places (notably diagonals and joints) while remaining rounded in bowls and dots, creating a distinctive, theatrical texture in text.
Best suited to display settings where personality is the goal: headlines, posters, book covers, product packaging, and brand marks that want a handcrafted or vintage-quirky voice. It can work for short bursts of text (taglines, pull quotes), but its strong contrast and irregular rhythm are most effective at larger sizes where the shapes can be appreciated.
The face reads playful and a bit mischievous, with a quirky, storybook energy. Its high-contrast, hand-shaped forms evoke vintage display lettering and expressive poster typography rather than neutral modern UI tone. The irregularities feel intentional, lending character and charm that can skew spooky-fun or carnival-like depending on context.
The design appears intended to deliver a distinctive, hand-made display sans with dramatic contrast and playful irregularity. Its tapered terminals and variable glyph widths suggest a focus on expressive texture and memorable letterforms rather than strict geometric uniformity.
Uppercase forms show strong personality with asymmetries and unconventional interior shapes, while lowercase keeps a similarly expressive ductus and varying widths. Numerals are bold and stylized, matching the same tapered, flared terminal logic and adding to the decorative color of lines of text.