Outline Kofu 3 is a regular weight, wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, logos, packaging, posters, kids design, playful, bubbly, cartoon, friendly, retro, playfulness, retro appeal, display impact, friendly branding, graphic outline, rounded, soft, puffy, monoline, outlined.
A rounded, monoline outline face with puffy, inflated letterforms and consistently soft corners. Strokes are expressed as a thick exterior contour with an open interior, producing a hollow look that stays even across curves and straight segments. Counters are generous and mostly circular, with simplified joins and terminals that avoid sharp angles; diagonals (like in V/W/X/Y) remain smooth and bulbous. Proportions read on the wide side with a tall x-height and compact ascenders/descenders, keeping lowercase forms sturdy and highly uniform in rhythm.
Best suited to display typography such as headlines, posters, brand marks, stickers, and packaging where the outline effect can read clearly. It also fits playful UI moments (buttons, badges, labels) and youth-oriented or entertainment contexts that benefit from a friendly, bubbly voice.
The overall tone is cheerful and approachable, with a toy-like, cartoon sensibility. The inflated outlines and rounded geometry evoke retro signage and playful packaging, leaning more fun and casual than formal or technical.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, friendly presence through soft, inflated shapes while using an outline-only construction to stay light and graphic. It prioritizes immediate visual charm and high-impact display readability over text-setting neutrality.
The outline treatment creates strong silhouette recognition at display sizes and can feel visually busy at very small sizes where the interior openings narrow. Numerals follow the same rounded, bouncy construction, keeping the set cohesive for headlines and short numeric callouts.