Sans Contrasted Ighi 3 is a very bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, packaging, signage, industrial, retro, impactful, playful, attention grabbing, retro modernity, industrial utility, brand distinctiveness, blocky, geometric, rounded corners, stencil-like, squarish counters.
A heavy, block-based sans with squared proportions and softened corners, built from broad verticals and angular joins. Curves are largely squarish and rounded-rectangle in nature, giving bowls and counters a compact, machined look. Stroke transitions show noticeable contrast, especially where diagonals and notches meet dense vertical stems, creating sharp internal cut-ins and occasional stencil-like apertures. Spacing and sidebearings feel tight and deliberate, producing dense, poster-ready word shapes with clear silhouettes.
Best suited to display settings where strong silhouettes and dense texture are beneficial, such as posters, headlines, branding marks, packaging panels, and short signage messages. It performs particularly well at medium-to-large sizes where the internal notches and squared counters remain legible and contribute to the font’s distinctive voice.
The overall tone is assertive and graphic, with a distinctly retro-industrial flavor that reads as both utilitarian and attention-grabbing. The squared rounding and punchy notches add a slightly playful, game-like edge while keeping the texture bold and authoritative.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum visual punch with a mechanical, modular construction and a contemporary-retro attitude. Its consistent block geometry and stylized cut-ins suggest a focus on creating memorable word shapes for branding and bold editorial display rather than quiet text setting.
Uppercase forms emphasize strong rectangular massing, while lowercase introduces more idiosyncratic construction and corner-cut details that increase character. Numerals are similarly compact and sturdy, matching the font’s boxy rhythm and maintaining strong figure presence in running text.