Sans Contrasted Tilu 1 is a bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, headlines, branding, packaging, quirky, punk, hand-cut, playful, edgy, diy texture, display impact, rebellious tone, handmade feel, angular, irregular, choppy, jagged, geometric.
A jagged, angular sans with a cut-paper silhouette and uneven stroke behavior. Stems and bowls are built from straight segments and sharp corners, with visible thickness shifts and frequent flared or tapered terminals that create a high-energy rhythm. Proportions vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, giving the texture a slightly unstable, hand-shaped feel while maintaining clear, blocky counters and a generally upright stance. The lowercase is compact and simplified, with squared forms and occasional asymmetric joins that reinforce the rough-hewn geometry.
Best suited to short, bold statements where character is more important than neutrality—posters, album/cover art, event graphics, bold branding, and packaging. It can work in display-sized pull quotes or titles, but the jagged detailing and tight texture make it less ideal for long passages or small UI text.
The overall tone is rebellious and handmade—more zine and street-poster than corporate. Its irregularity reads as intentionally DIY, lending a playful bite that feels energetic, off-kilter, and attention-grabbing.
The design appears intended to emulate hand-cut lettering with a controlled geometric backbone, pairing legibility with intentional roughness. It aims to inject attitude and motion into display typography through irregular widths, sharp segmentation, and contrasting stroke weight.
Spacing appears visually tight and lively in text, with sharp interior corners and compressed apertures that increase density at smaller sizes. The numerals and capitals lean into squared geometry and abrupt terminal cuts, which helps the font keep a consistent, stencil-like punch across different characters.