Outline Deme 1 is a very light, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, album art, game ui, industrial, sci-fi, glitchy, tech, experimental, futurism, industrial edge, glitch texture, display impact, octagonal, angular, stencil-like, outlined, faceted.
This typeface is built from angular, chamfered forms with a consistent outline stroke and open counters, giving each glyph a hollow, constructed look. The geometry favors squared curves and octagonal rounding rather than true circles, with frequent straight segments, clipped corners, and occasional notch-like cut-ins. Strokes appear monoline in outline, while interior voids and irregular bite-shaped intrusions add texture and visual disruption across many characters. The rhythm is distinctly modular and mechanical, with compact joins and a slightly segmented feel that becomes more noticeable in curved letters and bowls.
Best suited to display sizes where the outline construction and interior disruptions can read clearly—such as headlines, posters, branding marks, album/cover art, and tech-leaning packaging. It can also work for game or interface titling where a futuristic, fabricated feel is desired, but it is less appropriate for dense body copy due to the outline-only structure and textured interior shapes.
The overall tone feels futuristic and engineered, like lettering cut from sheet material or rendered on a stylized digital interface. The intermittent broken/eroded interior details introduce a glitchy, distressed edge that reads as experimental rather than purely utilitarian. It balances a tech-industrial attitude with a playful, hacked aesthetic.
The design appears intended to evoke a fabricated, machine-cut sign language—geometric, modular, and sharply chamfered—while adding deliberate irregular cutouts to suggest wear, interference, or digital glitch. The result prioritizes attitude and visual identity over conventional text neutrality.
Capitals and lowercase share the same geometric construction, with simplified lowercase shapes that echo the squared-off bowls and angled terminals of the caps. Numerals follow the same faceted logic, especially in rounded figures like 0, 2, 3, and 8 where corners and flat segments replace smooth arcs. The outline-only drawing means internal spacing and background contrast play a large role in legibility, particularly in text settings.