Sans Faceted Niva 3 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, sports branding, gaming ui, packaging, industrial, retro tech, athletic, arcade, authoritative, high impact, mechanical look, signage tone, retro display, geometric consistency, angular, chiseled, octagonal, blocky, stencil-like.
A heavy, angular display sans built from straight strokes and clipped corners, replacing curves with crisp planar facets. Counters are compact and often squarish, with uniform stroke thickness and sharp internal corners that create a cut-metal, octagonal feel across rounds like O/Q and numerals. Caps read tall and rectangular with broad shoulders and flat terminals, while lowercase maintains the same geometric logic with simplified, sturdy forms and minimal modulation. Overall spacing and rhythm are tight and mechanical, with strong verticals and short, squared bowls and apertures.
Best suited to display settings where impact and graphic character matter: posters, headlines, sports and team-style branding, game titles/UI accents, and bold packaging or labels. It can also work for short signage lines where a tough, industrial voice is desired, but is less ideal for long-form text.
The faceted geometry conveys a rugged, engineered tone—part industrial signage, part retro digital/arcade energy. Its blunt shapes feel confident and utilitarian, with an athletic scoreboard sensibility that reads loud and decisive rather than friendly or delicate.
The font appears designed to translate the language of cut corners and straight-line construction into a compact, high-impact alphabet. By standardizing facets and squaring off curves, it aims to deliver a sturdy, mechanical identity that remains legible while emphasizing a distinctive, engineered silhouette.
The design stays highly consistent in its corner-cut motif, giving both letters and numerals a cohesive, stamped look. At smaller sizes the tight apertures and dense counters may reduce clarity, while at headline sizes the facets become a defining graphic texture.