Sans Faceted Mise 5 is a very bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, album art, packaging, gothic, aggressive, industrial, dark, retro, impact, edge, modernized gothic, texture, angular, faceted, chiseled, sharp, compressed.
A condensed, heavy display face built from straight strokes and crisp planar cuts, with corners that look chamfered rather than rounded. Forms are predominantly rectangular and vertical, with small internal counters and frequent clipped terminals that create a stenciled, blade-like edge. The uppercase shows strong vertical rhythm and compact width, while the lowercase largely echoes the same blocky construction with minimal curvature. Numerals and punctuation follow the same hard-edged geometry, maintaining consistent stroke heft and tight apertures.
Best suited to short, high-impact applications such as posters, headlines, logos, album/merch graphics, and bold packaging where its faceted texture can read clearly. It can also work for signage-style titles or game/film display typography when a sharp, hard-edged voice is desired.
The overall tone is bold and confrontational, evoking poster lettering, metal-inspired graphics, and gritty urban signage. Its sharp facets and compressed stance give it a severe, mechanical energy with a retro-gothic edge.
The design appears intended to translate blackletter-inspired severity into a modern, simplified, geometric construction, prioritizing punchy silhouettes and a distinctive angular texture over small-size neutrality.
Diagonal and curved elements are simplified into segmented angles, which makes curves read as polygonal silhouettes. The dense counters and pointed cut-ins can reduce clarity at small sizes, but amplify impact in larger settings where the texture becomes a distinct visual motif.