Outline Lira 8 is a bold, narrow, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, game ui, album art, edgy, gothic, retro, arcade, metal, impact, drama, thematic styling, title display, brand attitude, angular, spiky, geometric, outlined, sharp.
A condensed, outline-driven display face built from straight segments and hard corners. The letterforms use a consistent outer contour with interior counters drawn as inline shapes, creating a hollow, double-line effect and a strong graphic rhythm. Terminals often end in pointed, wedge-like tips that hang below the baseline, while joins and corners stay crisp and rectilinear with minimal curvature. Uppercase proportions are compact and vertical, with simplified, blocky counters and assertive diagonals on letters like K, V, W, and X.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as headlines, posters, album/merch graphics, game titles, and logo wordmarks where the angular outline style can read clearly. It can also work for themed packaging or event promos that benefit from a sharp, dramatic voice, rather than long-form text.
The overall tone is aggressive and dramatic, with a stylized, blade-like silhouette that reads as gothic and metal-adjacent while also evoking retro arcade and fantasy title lettering. The outlined construction adds a neon-sign or cutout feel, giving it a high-impact, poster-like presence.
The font appears designed to deliver a compact, high-energy display look by combining angular gothic cues with an outline-only construction. Its pointed terminals and geometric counters prioritize visual attitude and icon-like letterforms over quiet readability.
The design relies on tight spacing and strong vertical emphasis; the repeated pointed descenders create a distinctive baseline texture in running text. Because the strokes are outlines rather than filled shapes, the font’s presence can shift noticeably with size and background contrast, and small sizes may lose interior detail.