Outline Katu 2 is a very light, wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logotypes, game ui, packaging, retro arcade, techno, playful, blocky, retro tech, modular display, arcade styling, grid coherence, geometric, angular, squared, outlined, monolinear.
A geometric, outlined display face built from squared, block-like forms with monolinear contour strokes. Counters and apertures are largely rectangular, and corners are mostly crisp with occasional small chamfers that soften the silhouette. Proportions lean broad and horizontally stable, with a compact, modular rhythm and slightly irregular widths across glyphs that keep the texture lively. The outline construction creates an airy interior while preserving strong, poster-like shapes, especially in capitals and numerals.
Best suited to display settings such as headlines, posters, branding wordmarks, and entertainment or tech-forward graphics. It also fits UI labels and on-screen titling where a retro-futuristic, arcade-like feel is desired, especially at medium-to-large sizes where the outline construction stays clear.
The overall tone feels retro-digital and game-adjacent, evoking arcade title screens, pixel-era interfaces, and sci‑fi labeling. Its outlined, boxy geometry reads confident and playful rather than formal, with a distinctly “constructed” personality that suggests machinery, circuits, and modular signage.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, modular display voice using outline-only construction and squared geometry, maximizing visual impact while keeping the forms open and lightweight. Its consistent box logic and crisp angles suggest it was drawn to feel digital, engineered, and easily integrated into grid-based layouts.
In text, the open interiors make the color of the page prominent, so the font reads best when given enough size or contrast. The squared punctuation and tightly framed counters contribute to a consistent, grid-friendly aesthetic that emphasizes structure over calligraphic nuance.