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Beacon Slab 3D Offset Arc Display Font

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Serif · 1 style · 148 characters · Version 0.1.1 · Added October 5, 2026

Beacon Slab 3D is a serif font: Beacon Slab: moderate-contrast slab: thick stems, lighter bars and feet. Flat broad-nib strokes held at about 0°, thick and thin by direction. Best for Slab Serif designs.

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Beacon Slab 3D148 characters · 1 style

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Test Beacon Slab 3D

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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Design

Offset Arc Display Letterforms

Beacon Slab 3D combines heavy upright stems with lighter horizontal bars and broad, square feet. Thin offset contours run above and to the right of the black letter faces, with pale channels keeping the layers apart. The O has a wide rounded bowl and a crescent cut into the lower left of its counter. The E repeats the stepped edge across its arms, while the R sends a firm diagonal leg into a notched foot. These details give the lettering a dimensional, retro signboard mood, with enough angular structure to balance the generous curves.

Test the font in your wording

Inspect repeated Latin rounds, diagonal joins, and adjacent square feet in your wording. Check that the offset arcs and pale channels stay separate, especially around O and R. Preview accented Latin characters individually; other scripts need their own coverage and appearance checks.

Font pairing roles

Use this face for the main heading, then try a plain sans serif for supporting text and labels. Its offset contours and broad feet already supply substantial detail, so a companion with simple edges can keep the hierarchy clear.

Beacon Slab 3D: letterforms and layout

Distinctive letterforms

O

A narrow arc follows the upper and right edges, while a pale crescent cuts into the lower left of the counter.

E

Broad rectangular arms carry offset edges separated by pale channels, giving the square terminals a stepped appearance.

R

The rounded bowl has a fine offset contour, while the diagonal leg ends in a broad foot with an angular notch.

Compare the layout

Same font, different settings
28px

HELLO WORLD?

64px

HELLO WORLD?

Compare smaller and larger previews, watching the pale channels around the serifs and the crescent inside O. Check whether those details remain distinct in your intended layout.

Preview settings, not minimum size recommendations. Wide samples scroll sideways.

Choose your letterforms

Same wording · 40px
Beacon Slab 3D

HELLO WORLD?

Beacon Slab 3D adds offset upper and right contours, pale channels around the square feet, and a crescent inside O. Choose it when those layered edges should contribute to the lettering.

Beacon Slab

HELLO WORLD?

Beacon Slab shows the same broad capitals with solid edges and open, uninterrupted counters. Its E and L have plain rectangular feet, making it a useful choice when the underlying letter shapes should carry the composition.

Beacon Slab 3D font in use

  • MIDNIGHT SHOW

    Poster. Heavy stems and offset contours give a short event title a layered silhouette with a retro theatrical feel.

  • OPEN LATE

    Shop sign. Broad square feet and rounded bowls bring a sturdy signboard character to a compact shop message.

  • AFTER HOURS

    Book or album cover. Pale edge channels add graphic detail to a spare cover, letting a short title carry much of the composition.

The scenes are illustrations drawn on this page with Beacon Slab 3D itself, not client work.

How this page was made. Beacon Slab 3D is a FontGenerator library font made with AI; before release its letters were read back one by one by independent automated checks. The design notes were written by AI from the specimen images and checked against them by a second, independent pass; font measurements come from the font file. Preview sizes and spacing are comparison settings.

Specimens

Specimens

Rendered from the font files, without retouching.

  • Beacon Slab 3D cover specimen
  • Beacon Slab 3D pangram specimen
  • Beacon Slab 3D alphabet specimen
  • Beacon Slab 3D numbers specimen
  • Beacon Slab 3D waterfall specimen
  • Beacon Slab 3D sizes specimen
  • Beacon Slab 3D lowercase specimen

About

About Beacon Slab 3D

Its lowercase is tall: the x-height is 77.1% of the cap height, against a median of 69.6% for serif fonts, taller than 46 of the 52 other serif fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l rise 3.4% above the capitals, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 24% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 46 of the 52 other serif fonts. Beacon Slab 3D runs 17.3% wider than the median for serif fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 98.4% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 109%). The o is wider than it is tall, 1.17 to 1, and W is the widest capital, at 1.30 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 1.3% of the cap height above H and dips 1.4% below the baseline.

Ink covers 44.4% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 43 of the 52 other serif fonts.

Its 148 characters include 105 Latin letters, plus 43 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 53 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. The word space measures 35.1% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 6.5% of its width. The font carries no kerning, so spacing comes from each letter’s own side bearings. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Beacon Slab 3D will not line up exactly.

12 other library fonts share Beacon Slab 3D's underlying letter structure. Compared with Beacon Slab 3D, Racer Slab cuts horizontal stripes through the letters, puts down 23% less ink and adds Filipino, Malay, Albanian and 2 more languages. Slime Slab adds paint drips. Sheriff Shadow adds a separate drop shadow, sets 17% narrower and adds Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Bosnian and 8 more languages.

Measured from the version 0.1.1 font file. Comparisons are with the 377 published library fonts measured on October 25, 2026, 53 of them serif fonts.

Characters

Characters

Includes all 95 printable Basic Latin characters, 148 characters in total.

Verified language coverage: Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Dutch, English, Filipino, Galician, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Malay, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Zulu

Stroke
Flat broad-nib strokes held at about 0°, thick and thin by direction
Best for
Slab Serif designs

Basic Latin · 95

  • !
  • "
  • #
  • $
  • %
  • &
  • '
  • (
  • )
  • *
  • +
  • ,
  • -
  • .
  • /
  • 0
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • :
  • ;
  • <
  • =
  • >
  • ?
  • @
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • X
  • Y
  • Z
  • [
  • \
  • ]
  • ^
  • _
  • `
  • a
  • b
  • c
  • d
  • e
  • f
  • g
  • h
  • i
  • j
  • k
  • l
  • m
  • n
  • o
  • p
  • q
  • r
  • s
  • t
  • u
  • v
  • w
  • x
  • y
  • z
  • {
  • |
  • }
  • ~

Latin letters with accents · 105

  • ª
  • º
  • À
  • Á
  • Â
  • Ã
  • Ä
  • Å
  • Æ
  • Ç
  • È
  • É
  • Ê
  • Ë
  • Ì
  • Í
  • Î
  • Ï
  • Ñ
  • Ò
  • Ó
  • Ô
  • Õ
  • Ö
  • Ø
  • Ù
  • Ú
  • Û
  • Ü
  • Ý
  • ß
  • à
  • á
  • â
  • ã
  • ä
  • å
  • æ
  • ç
  • è
  • é
  • ê
  • ë
  • ì
  • í
  • î
  • ï
  • ñ
  • ò
  • ó
  • ô
  • õ
  • ö
  • ø
  • ù
  • ú
  • û
  • ü
  • ý
  • ÿ
  • Ā
  • ā
  • Ă
  • ă
  • Ċ
  • ċ
  • Ē
  • ē
  • Ĕ
  • ĕ
  • Ġ
  • ġ
  • Ī
  • ī
  • Ĭ
  • ĭ
  • Ŀ
  • ŀ
  • Ō
  • ō
  • Ŏ
  • ŏ
  • Œ
  • œ
  • Ū
  • ū
  • Ŭ
  • ŭ
  • Ÿ
  • ɑ
  • Ḃ
  • ḃ
  • Ḋ
  • ḋ
  • Ḟ
  • ḟ
  • Ṁ
  • ṁ
  • Ṗ
  • ṗ
  • Ṡ
  • ṡ
  • Ṫ
  • ṫ
  • Ɑ

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Pairings

Fonts to pair with Beacon Slab 3D

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FAQ

Beacon Slab 3D questions

Can I use Beacon Slab 3D commercially?
Beacon Slab 3D is part of the Pro library. Pro and Studio include it with a commercial license that continues after the plan ends; a Font Pass can pick it as one of 5 fonts for personal use.
Which languages does Beacon Slab 3D support?
Beacon Slab 3D's 148 characters include 105 Latin letters, plus 43 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 53 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. It has all 95 printable Basic Latin characters. Verified language coverage: Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Dutch, English, Filipino, Galician, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Malay, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Zulu. Missing a language? Customize the font and add it in Studio.
What is Beacon Slab 3D good for?
Poster: Heavy stems and offset contours give a short event title a layered silhouette with a retro theatrical feel. Shop sign: Broad square feet and rounded bowls bring a sturdy signboard character to a compact shop message. Book or album cover: Pale edge channels add graphic detail to a spare cover, letting a short title carry much of the composition. Less suited: For dense paragraphs or detailed instructions, try a simpler text serif whose counters and edges stay visually quiet.
What fonts pair well with Beacon Slab 3D?
Geo Octagon Counter (sans serif), Catenary Stem Sans Outline (sans serif) and Vow Script (script) are drawn on a different letter structure, so Beacon Slab 3D can carry the headings while one of them sets the text. Each has its own page with a type tester for trying the pair.
Which fonts are similar to Beacon Slab 3D?
In the same serif style: Anvil Slab 3D (3d effect); Letterman Varsity (varsity effect); Window Arch Slab (24% narrower, lower x-height).