Sans Other Gazu 2 is a very bold, wide, low contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, branding, packaging, signage, industrial, stencil, retro, graphic, assertive, display impact, stencil styling, modular system, graphic texture, modular, geometric, monoline, notched, segmented.
A heavy, geometric sans with a modular construction built from broad strokes and frequent vertical slice cut-ins that create a stencil-like, segmented rhythm. Many bowls and counters are formed by near-circular arcs and squared terminals, while internal cutouts and occasional diagonal notches introduce sharp, engineered breaks in the silhouettes. The overall texture is compact and blocky, with dense black areas balanced by consistent internal voids that repeat across capitals, lowercase, and figures.
Best suited to large-scale applications where the internal cut-ins can be appreciated: posters, striking headlines, brand marks, packaging panels, and signage. It works especially well in short phrases and display settings where a strong graphic texture is desirable over neutral readability.
The font projects an industrial, poster-forward attitude with a retro display flavor. Its repeated splits and notches feel mechanical and architectural, giving headlines a bold, attention-grabbing tone that reads as confident and slightly experimental.
The design appears intended to merge a straightforward sans skeleton with stencil and modular cues, producing a bold display face that feels engineered and pattern-driven. The consistent segmentation suggests an aim for strong visual identity and repeatable texture across a wide set of glyphs.
The segmented detailing is prominent enough to become a defining pattern at text sizes, with joins and cut-ins sometimes aligning as vertical seams through the letterforms. Numerals echo the same construction, reinforcing a cohesive, system-like look across alphanumerics.