Sans Other Kelid 8 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: display, headlines, posters, book covers, branding, playful, hand-cut, quirky, folky, storybook, handmade look, quirky display, expressive texture, informal branding, angular, irregular, asymmetric, chiseled, inked.
A lively, irregular sans with wedge-like terminals and subtly faceted curves that feel carved rather than mechanically drawn. Strokes show gentle modulation and occasional swelling, with corners that alternate between crisp points and softened joins. Proportions vary from glyph to glyph, creating an uneven rhythm and slightly wavering baseline/sidebearings impression even in tightly set text. Counters are generally open and rounded, while diagonals and joins often resolve into sharp, triangular cuts that give the face its distinctive texture.
Best suited to display settings where texture and personality are desirable: headlines, posters, packaging, event graphics, and distinctive branding. It can also work for short bursts of copy (pull quotes, menu sections, labels) when set with generous spacing, but it is less ideal for long-form reading at small sizes.
The overall tone is playful and handcrafted, evoking hand-cut paper, brushy signage, or woodblock-like lettering without becoming fully calligraphic. Its quirky inconsistencies and pointed terminals add a mischievous, slightly gothic-storybook flavor that reads as characterful rather than formal.
The design appears intended to deliver a handcrafted, cut-terminal sans voice that stands apart from neutral grotesks. By combining open counters with angular carving and intentionally varied proportions, it aims to create an expressive, human-made feel for attention-grabbing typography.
Numerals and capitals lean into the same angular, notched construction, with several glyphs showing distinctive cut-ins and off-center curves that increase personality at the cost of strict uniformity. At larger sizes the faceting and terminal shapes become a key feature; at smaller sizes the uneven rhythm may feel busy in dense text.