Sans Other Wiri 13 is a very bold, wide, very high contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, stickers, kids branding, playful, retro, chunky, handmade, cartoon, impact, retro display, approachability, handmade texture, playfulness, rounded, soft corners, inked, rough edge, stamped.
A heavy, rounded sans with blocky silhouettes and softened corners. Strokes are thick and compact, with small counters and short apertures that give letters a punched, filled-in look. The outlines show subtle wobble and uneven edges, creating a printed or hand-inked texture rather than a mechanically perfect contour. Curves are broad and bulbous, joins are blunt, and terminals tend to end flat with slight irregularity, producing a sturdy, poster-like rhythm across words and lines.
Best suited to short-form display use where its dense, chunky letterforms can read as a deliberate stylistic statement—posters, headlines, merchandise graphics, packaging, and playful branding. It can also work for labels or callouts when generous tracking and line spacing are used to prevent the tight counters from clogging in smaller sizes.
The overall tone is friendly and humorous, with a distinctly retro, comic display feel. The slightly distressed edges and inflated shapes read as informal and approachable, suggesting packaging, cartoons, and playful headlines rather than sober editorial typography.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum visual impact with a friendly, comic sensibility, combining a solid sans structure with intentionally imperfect outlines to evoke printed ephemera and hand-made signage.
Lowercase forms echo the uppercase with simplified construction and a compact interior space, keeping texture dense at text sizes. Numerals match the same chunky build, with rounded bowls and tight counters that maintain a consistent, weighty color in sequences.