Sans Other Dinef 3 is a bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, game ui, packaging, industrial, technical, aggressive, futuristic, gaming, machined look, sci-fi styling, display impact, signage feel, octagonal, chamfered, angular, stencil-like, modular.
A heavy, angular sans built from straight strokes and chamfered corners, giving many forms an octagonal, machined silhouette. Curves are largely replaced by clipped diagonals, with consistent stroke thickness and sharp internal joins that create faceted counters in letters like O, C, G, and Q. Several glyphs incorporate deliberate breaks or notch-like cuts (notably in S, a, e, s, and some numerals), producing a subtle stencil impression while maintaining a solid, blocky rhythm. Spacing reads slightly irregular by design, with compact apertures and strong vertical emphasis that keeps the texture dense in text.
Best suited to short display settings where its angular construction can be appreciated—headlines, posters, titles, logos, and product or event branding. It can also work for game UI or interface labels at moderate sizes, though the notches and tight apertures may reduce clarity in long passages or at very small sizes.
The overall tone is assertive and engineered, evoking industrial signage, sci‑fi interfaces, and arcade or gaming aesthetics. Its faceted geometry and cut-in details add a hard-edged, tactical feel that reads more “mechanical” than friendly.
The design appears intended to translate a machined, panel-cut aesthetic into a sans display alphabet, emphasizing straight-line construction, clipped corners, and purposeful breaks to suggest industrial fabrication and futuristic signage.
Uppercase and lowercase share a coherent geometric system, with the lowercase echoing the same chamfered construction rather than adopting humanist modulation. Numerals follow the same clipped logic; rounded figures (0, 6, 8, 9) appear as polygonal outlines, reinforcing the industrial motif.