Sans Normal Valot 2 is a light, normal width, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, kids, editorial, handmade, playful, casual, friendly, sketchy, human touch, approachability, informality, warmth, monoline, rounded, irregular, open counters, soft terminals.
A monoline sans with rounded construction and intentionally irregular, hand-drawn contours. Strokes show subtle wobble and slight edge roughness, with soft terminals and gently simplified joins. Round letters (O, C, G, e) are built from open, circular forms, while straighter glyphs (E, F, H, I, L) keep a clean, geometric backbone softened by the uneven stroke quality. Spacing and widths vary slightly from glyph to glyph, contributing to an organic rhythm in text.
Best suited for headlines, short text, and display applications where a friendly handmade voice is desired—such as packaging, invitations, posters, and casual editorial callouts. It can work for brief passages in larger sizes, while smaller UI text may lose clarity as the outline texture and irregularities compress.
The overall tone is informal and approachable, with a crafted, doodled feel that reads as human rather than mechanical. Its soft shapes and lightly distressed edges add warmth and a playful personality without becoming overly decorative.
The design appears intended to deliver a clean sans structure with a deliberately hand-drawn surface, combining straightforward letterforms with a crafted, slightly imperfect finish to feel personable and relaxed.
Legibility remains solid thanks to clear silhouettes and open apertures, though the roughened outline texture becomes more noticeable at larger sizes and in high-contrast settings. Numerals follow the same rounded, hand-rendered logic and feel consistent with the alphabet.