Sans Faceted Hefe 11 is a regular weight, very narrow, monoline, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, signage, branding, logos, industrial, architectural, retro, technical, noir, space-saving, display impact, geometric styling, signage clarity, retro-modernism, angular, faceted, condensed, geometric, crisp.
This typeface is built from thin, consistent strokes and sharply chamfered terminals, replacing curves with flat facets and pointed joins. The overall silhouette is tall and compact, with tight internal counters and a strong vertical emphasis that creates an even, rhythmic texture in text. Many forms use straight-sided bowls and clipped corners (notably in rounded letters and numerals), giving a machined, cut-metal feel while maintaining clean, open apertures for a condensed design.
Best suited to display applications where its condensed, faceted construction can be appreciated: headlines, posters, packaging fronts, venue or wayfinding signage, and brand wordmarks. It can also work for short UI labels or section headers when a technical-retro accent is desired, but it’s most effective at larger sizes.
The tone feels engineered and slightly theatrical—like signage cut from sheet material or an Art Deco–adjacent display face reinterpreted with a technical, schematic edge. Its sharp geometry reads as cool, controlled, and a bit mysterious, lending a distinctive retro-futurist flavor to headings.
The design appears intended to deliver a compact, high-impact display voice by combining a narrow footprint with crisp, planar corner cuts. By translating curves into angular facets and keeping stroke weight consistent, it aims for a disciplined, fabricated look that stands out without relying on ornament.
Letterforms show deliberate simplification: rounded characters become polygonal, and diagonals are used sparingly and precisely, which reinforces the faceted theme. The narrow proportions and long ascenders/descenders make spacing and line length visually prominent, so it benefits from thoughtful tracking in longer settings.