Sans Other Onba 3 is a bold, wide, monoline, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, logotypes, posters, ui labels, game titles, futuristic, techno, arcade, industrial, sci‑fi, interface feel, tech branding, sci‑fi display, systemic geometry, retro digital, square, angular, geometric, stencil-like, modular.
A compact, squared-off sans with a modular construction and heavily geometric letterforms. Strokes are uniform in thickness with crisp right-angle corners and occasional diagonal cuts, producing a blocky, engineered texture. Counters are mostly rectangular, apertures are narrow, and terminals tend to end flat; several shapes suggest a stencil-like logic where interior spaces are carved out of a solid frame. The overall rhythm is tight and mechanical, with distinctive, angular joins in letters like V/W/Y and squared bowls in forms like O/Q and b/d/p/q.
Best suited for display settings where its angular detail and squared counters can read clearly—headlines, branding marks, packaging, posters, and tech-themed UI labels. It works especially well in gaming, sci‑fi, and industrial contexts, and can provide a distinctive voice for short bursts of text such as titles, navigation, and feature callouts.
The font communicates a futuristic, techno tone with strong arcade and industrial associations. Its squared geometry and cut-in detailing feel machine-made and utilitarian, projecting a confident, high-contrast “digital hardware” personality. The look is assertive and functional rather than friendly, evoking sci‑fi interfaces, robotics, and retro game graphics.
The design appears intended to deliver a constructed, futuristic sans with a modular, screen-oriented feel, balancing strict geometry with small stencil-like cuts for recognizability. Its consistent monoline framework and boxy proportions suggest a goal of creating a cohesive system for titles and interface-style typography rather than traditional long-form reading.
The design relies on consistent rectangular counters and repeated corner motifs, which creates strong visual coherence across caps, lowercase, and figures. Some glyphs employ inset notches and open corners that add character but also increase visual complexity in dense text. Numerals follow the same boxed, segmented logic, maintaining a uniform, system-like appearance.