Stencil Piti 3 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, packaging, labels, industrial, authoritative, vintage, utility, bold display, stenciled branding, industrial marking, impactful display, rugged clarity, slab serif, bracketed serifs, stenciled cuts, vertical stress, compact spacing.
A compact slab-serif design with sturdy, bracketed serifs and a firmly vertical, upright stance. Stencil breaks are applied as deliberate, high-contrast cutouts—often appearing as triangular or wedge-like notches—creating clear bridges across stems and bowls while keeping the letterforms highly legible. The overall rhythm is dense and emphatic, with relatively tall capitals, tight internal apertures, and consistent, blocky terminals that read cleanly at display sizes.
Best suited to display typography where the stencil detailing can be appreciated—posters, bold headings, signage, and packaging/label systems that benefit from a rugged, marked aesthetic. It can also work for short subheads or callouts where a compact, authoritative voice is desired.
The tone is industrial and no-nonsense, pairing a traditional serif foundation with utilitarian stencil logic. It suggests institutional marking, packaging, and signage, but with a slightly vintage, print-era flavor that feels assertive rather than mechanical.
The design appears intended to blend classic slab-serif solidity with practical stencil breaks, producing a strong, reproducible look associated with marking and manufacturing while remaining readable and typographically disciplined.
Stencil interruptions are used consistently across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals, giving the font a cohesive “marked” texture without overly fragmenting forms. Curved letters (like C, G, O, Q, and the lowercases) retain strong structure, and the numerals share the same cut-and-bridge language for uniformity in headlines and labels.