Sans Other Sela 9 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, album art, angular, industrial, condensed, retro, assertive, standout display, retro edge, graphic impact, condensed voice, geometric, spiky, chiseled, high-waist, quirky.
A highly condensed, monolinear sans with sharp, faceted construction and frequent wedge-like terminals. Strokes stay mostly straight with slight internal angles and occasional tapered joins, producing a cut-paper or chiseled silhouette rather than smooth curves. Counters are narrow and often polygonal, with compact apertures and a strong vertical rhythm; spacing appears tight but consistent across the sample text. Numerals and capitals follow the same tall, compressed geometry, emphasizing straight stems and clipped corners for a rigid, poster-ready texture.
Best suited to display settings where a tight, vertical rhythm and sharp geometry can carry the message—posters, headlines, branding marks, packaging, and entertainment-related graphics. It can work for short subheads or pull quotes when set large, but is likely to feel busy for extended reading at small sizes.
The overall tone feels edgy and mechanical, with a retro display energy that reads as both playful and slightly aggressive. Its angular silhouettes and squeezed proportions create a sense of speed, tension, and graphic punch that stands out immediately in a line of text.
The font appears designed to deliver a distinctive condensed voice with an angular, constructed look—prioritizing strong silhouette and stylized rhythm over neutral readability. Its consistent faceting across caps, lowercase, and figures suggests an intent to create a unified, instantly recognizable display texture.
The design relies on distinctive corner cuts and pointed terminals to suggest curvature without fully rounding forms, which increases character but can reduce clarity at small sizes. The texture is strongly patterned in text, so it benefits from generous size and careful tracking when used in longer lines.