Sans Faceted Debi 5 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, sports branding, signage, logotypes, athletic, industrial, assertive, retro, impact, ruggedness, branding, octagonal, blocky, angular, faceted, compact counters.
A heavy, block-constructed display face built from sharp, planar cuts that replace curves with chamfered corners. Strokes are consistently thick with squared terminals, creating a compact rhythm and high color on the page. Many bowls and apertures are drawn as octagonal or rectangular counters, and diagonals appear as clipped facets rather than smooth joins. Lowercase forms largely echo the uppercase’s geometric, slabless construction, while numerals follow the same cut-corner logic for a uniform, signlike texture.
Best suited to display typography where impact and a rugged, engineered feel are desired—headlines, posters, sports and team-style branding, packaging callouts, and bold signage. It performs especially well in short phrases, badges, and logo wordmarks where its faceted geometry can be a defining visual cue.
The overall tone is forceful and utilitarian, with a sporty, scoreboard-like presence and a hint of retro poster lettering. Its crisp edges and dense silhouettes read as tough and mechanical rather than friendly or calligraphic.
The design appears intended to translate the feel of cut metal, stenciled blocks, or athletic/industrial lettering into a consistent alphabet, using chamfers and flat planes to deliver a strong, modernized retro voice.
The faceting creates distinctive interior shapes and tight apertures that can reduce clarity at smaller sizes, but it gives large settings a strong, emblematic stamp. The sample text shows a consistent, even texture across long lines, with particularly strong impact in all-caps and title-style settings.