Sans Other Waku 2 is a bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: logotypes, posters, headlines, game ui, tech branding, techno, arcade, industrial, sci‑fi, retro, futuristic feel, modular system, display impact, digital aesthetic, industrial tone, angular, geometric, squared, stencil‑like, hard‑edged.
A geometric, hard-edged sans built from straight strokes and crisp 45° cuts. Bowls and counters are largely rectangular, giving letters a boxed silhouette with strong right angles and occasional notches. Stroke terminals are predominantly flat, with diagonal chamfers at corners to prevent perfect squares, creating a faceted rhythm across the alphabet. The lowercase echoes the same modular construction with simplified forms and compact joins, while figures are similarly squared and display-oriented, maintaining consistent corner treatment and heavy internal counters.
This font is best suited to display settings such as logos, headlines, posters, and packaging where its angular construction can be a focal point. It also fits interface and entertainment contexts—particularly game UI, sci-fi or tech-themed graphics, and retro-digital branding—where squared forms and sharp corners read as intentional and stylistic.
The overall tone feels techno and arcade-like, with a constructed, machine-cut personality. Its sharp geometry and squared counters suggest sci-fi interfaces, industrial labeling, and retro-digital aesthetics rather than humanist warmth.
The design appears intended to translate a modular, digital-meets-industrial idea into a readable sans: minimizing curves, standardizing corner behavior, and using squared counters to produce a cohesive, futuristic texture. Its letterforms prioritize impact and stylistic consistency over conventional neutrality, aiming for a distinctive, constructed voice in short to medium-length text.
The design’s repeated corner chamfers and inset counters create a distinctive, almost stencil-like texture in text, especially where multiple right angles align across a line. Diagonal elements (notably in V, W, X, Y, and Z) are emphasized and appear as clean, straight segments rather than curves, reinforcing the font’s modular, engineered look.