Solid Sole 3 is a very bold, wide, low contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, packaging, event titles, art deco, playful, futuristic, geometric, retro, high impact, decorative display, geometric styling, retro modernism, logo-ready, stencil-like, notched, chunky, rounded, angular.
A heavy geometric display face built from simple, blocky masses with frequent triangular cuts, rectangular notches, and collapsed counters. Curves are rendered as broad circular segments, while straight strokes terminate in crisp, squared ends, creating a strong figure–ground graphic quality. Many letters feature deliberate gaps or bite-like incisions (notably in C, G, S, and several numerals), and the lowercase mirrors the same modular construction with a tall x-height and minimal interior openness. Spacing and widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an irregular, constructed rhythm rather than a purely uniform system.
Best suited to big, graphic applications such as posters, headlines, brand marks, packaging, and event or venue titles where its sculpted silhouettes can read clearly. It can also work for short decorative subheads, labels, or UI title treatments, but is less appropriate for long-form text where the collapsed counters could reduce legibility.
The overall tone is bold and graphic with a retro-futurist, Art Deco–adjacent flavor. Its cutout details and solid silhouettes give it a playful, poster-like presence that feels engineered and stylized rather than neutral or literary.
The design appears intended to maximize visual impact through dense silhouettes and distinctive cutouts, blending circular forms with sharp, architectural incisions. The consistent use of notches and filled interiors suggests a deliberate display concept aimed at creating a memorable, emblematic look rather than conventional readability.
Because counters are largely filled or reduced to narrow slits, letter differentiation relies on exterior silhouettes and the placement of notches; this makes it most effective at larger sizes and in short bursts. The punctuation visible in the sample (e.g., colon, exclamation, apostrophe) follows the same solid, simplified approach.