Sans Faceted Dohy 4 is a bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logotypes, signage, packaging, industrial, gothic, tactical, retro, impact, edginess, geometric styling, signage clarity, angular, faceted, chiseled, blackletter-leaning, octagonal.
This typeface is built from straight strokes and clipped corners, replacing curves with crisp facets and diagonal terminals. Letterforms feel compact and sturdy with heavy verticals, narrow apertures, and frequent interior notches that create a cut-metal rhythm. Counters in rounded characters like O and Q resolve into octagonal shapes, while diagonals in K, V, W, and Y remain sharp and geometric. The lowercase echoes the same constructed logic, with simplified bowls and angled joins that keep the texture consistent across cases.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as headlines, posters, wordmarks, and branding where its sharp facets can be appreciated. It also fits industrial or tech-adjacent signage and packaging that benefits from a tough, geometric voice, rather than long-form reading.
The overall tone is assertive and engineered, evoking signage, machinery, and hard-edged display lettering. Its faceted construction reads as severe and energetic, with a subtle gothic/blackletter echo that adds drama without becoming ornate.
The design appears intended to translate a chiseled, planar aesthetic into a clean sans framework, emphasizing straight geometry, clipped terminals, and consistent angular detailing. The goal is a distinctive display texture that feels manufactured and forceful while staying structurally simple.
At text sizes the many angled cuts create a busy sparkle, especially in sequences with repeated diagonals and tight counters; it performs best when given room to breathe via generous tracking and leading. Numerals follow the same angular, cut-corner approach, maintaining a uniform, regimented presence in headlines and labels.