Sans Other Kype 10 is a very bold, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, logos, children’s media, playful, quirky, retro, cartoonish, loud, high impact, handmade feel, retro display, playfulness, hand-cut, irregular, chunky, rounded, condensed.
A heavy, condensed sans with an intentionally irregular, hand-cut feel. Strokes are chunky with subtly tapered terminals and uneven edge geometry that creates a lively, slightly wobbly rhythm. Counters are compact and rounded, and curves (C, O, S) show asymmetric weighting that prevents the forms from feeling mechanical. The lowercase is simple and sturdy, with single-storey shapes and minimal detail, while numerals echo the same squeezed proportions and blunt, dark presence.
Best suited to short, attention-grabbing display work such as headlines, poster titles, event flyers, packaging, and playful brand marks. It can also work for apparel graphics and social tiles where a bold, characterful voice is needed, rather than extended reading.
The overall tone is playful and offbeat, with a retro-cartoon energy that reads as friendly, bold, and a bit mischievous. Its irregularities feel deliberate and human, giving it a handcrafted personality suited to fun, informal messaging.
The design appears aimed at delivering maximum impact with a handcrafted, irregular texture—capturing a vintage, cartoon-like display look while keeping letterforms broadly sans and highly legible in larger sizes.
The tight proportions and strong black mass create high impact, but the condensed, uneven shapes can reduce clarity at small sizes or in long passages. It performs best when given ample tracking and used where character and texture are more important than neutrality.