Sans Contrasted Erru 3 is a very bold, very wide, very high contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, sports branding, logotypes, packaging, sporty, dynamic, retro, aggressive, industrial, impact, speed, branding, display, athletics, slanted, compressed counters, angular, ink-trap like, cut-in terminals.
A heavy, right-slanted sans with sharply engineered contours and pronounced stroke modulation. Letters are built from chunky, rounded-rect forms with crisp cut-ins that create compact internal counters and highlight-like openings. Terminals are blunt and often notched, giving many glyphs a machined, aerodynamic feel, while curves are tightened into squarish arcs. The overall rhythm is wide and forceful, with strong diagonals and consistent, high-impact silhouettes that stay coherent from caps to numerals.
Best suited to large-size display work where its weight, slant, and contrast can read cleanly—headlines, posters, event graphics, and sports or motorsport branding. It can also work for punchy wordmarks and packaging titles where a fast, technical attitude is desired, but it will feel heavy and intense for extended small-text settings.
The tone is fast and assertive, evoking motorsport and performance branding. Its slanted stance and hard-edged shaping read as energetic and competitive, while the bold massing adds a tough, industrial confidence. The look leans retro-futuristic, like classic racing or arcade-era display lettering updated with sharper precision.
The letterforms appear designed to deliver maximum impact and speed, pairing bold, widened proportions with sculpted cut-ins that suggest motion and precision. The contrast and notched terminals look intentionally tuned for a distinctive, branded texture rather than neutral readability.
The design relies on internal cutouts and tight apertures to maintain legibility at large sizes while preserving a dense, compact texture. In longer sample text it forms a dark, continuous band with strong forward motion, making spacing and line breaks visually important for clarity.