Sans Other Biroh 10 is a very bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, children’s, branding, playful, quirky, retro, hand-cut, cartoon, expressiveness, retro display, handmade feel, playful impact, irregular, bouncy, chunky, rounded, condensed.
A heavy, condensed sans with irregular, hand-drawn construction and subtly varying widths from glyph to glyph. Strokes are thick and mostly monolinear with occasional tapered joins, and corners alternate between soft rounding and sharp, cut-like angles. Curves are bulbous and slightly asymmetric, while straights lean toward gently warped verticals and uneven terminals, creating a lively rhythm. Counters are compact but kept open enough for display use, and the numerals follow the same chunky, cut-paper silhouette.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as headlines, posters, playful branding, packaging, and event promos where a quirky voice is desirable. It can work for logos and labels that benefit from a handmade, cartoonish personality, but the irregular rhythm makes it less appropriate for dense editorial text.
The overall tone is humorous and informal, with a bouncy, off-kilter energy that feels handcrafted rather than engineered. It evokes retro cartoon titling and DIY signage, projecting friendliness and mischief more than neutrality or precision.
The design appears intended to mimic hand-cut or marker-drawn lettering in a bold, condensed footprint, prioritizing personality and motion over strict geometric consistency. Its exaggerated shapes and uneven terminals aim to create an instantly recognizable, fun display voice.
Uppercase forms read like compact, poster-ready blocks, while the lowercase keeps a simplified, single-storey feel in several letters and maintains the same playful wobble. Spacing and shapes are intentionally inconsistent, which adds character in headlines but can look restless in long passages.