Sans Contrasted Hily 2 is a very bold, wide, very high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, packaging, signage, poster, industrial, retro, punchy, assertive, impact, distinctiveness, industrial feel, display emphasis, stencil-cut, ink-trap, geometric, blocky, compressed counters.
A heavy, block-built sans with sharply carved internal notches that read like stencil cuts or extreme ink-traps. The construction is largely geometric, with broad verticals and flattened curves; many bowls and rounds are split by narrow vertical apertures and wedge-like cut-ins that create a high-contrast, segmented silhouette. Terminals are mostly blunt and squared, and the overall rhythm is compact and dense, with tight counters and strong figure-ground patterns that become more pronounced at larger sizes.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings such as headlines, posters, branding marks, packaging titles, and bold signage. It can also work for album covers or event graphics where the stencil-like segmentation becomes a deliberate visual signature rather than a body-text constraint.
The segmented shapes give the font a tough, mechanical attitude with a retro-display edge. It feels bold and confrontational, leaning toward utilitarian signage and headline typography where impact and texture matter as much as legibility.
Designed to deliver maximum visual punch while introducing a signature, cut-in vocabulary that differentiates it from standard heavy sans faces. The repeated internal slices suggest an intention to evoke industrial fabrication, stencil lettering, or display typography optimized for strong graphic presence.
The distinctive interior cutouts create a strong repeating motif across letters, numerals, and punctuation, producing a consistent “sliced” texture in words. Because the counters are frequently interrupted, small-size readability may drop, while large settings emphasize the graphic pattern and weight.