Sans Other Abnab 5 is a very bold, normal width, low contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, halloween, packaging, game titles, playful, spooky, cartoon, rugged, hand-cut, expressiveness, thematic display, handmade feel, impact, angular, chunky, irregular, faceted, compressed counters.
A heavy, blocky display face built from faceted, angular forms. Strokes are thick and mostly monoline, with abrupt corners, chiseled notches, and irregular edges that create a hand-cut silhouette. The rhythm is intentionally uneven: widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, with tight internal counters and compact apertures that keep the texture dense. Uppercase and lowercase share a consistent jagged geometry, and figures follow the same cut-paper construction for a cohesive set.
Well suited for short, high-impact settings such as posters, event flyers, game or comic titles, packaging callouts, and branding moments that want a playful-spooky bite. It can work for display paragraphs in large sizes, but is most effective for headings, logos, and punchy phrases.
The overall tone is bold and mischievous, with a slightly eerie, Halloween-adjacent energy. Its rough, carved shapes feel handmade and animated, suggesting poster lettering, comic titling, or stylized “monster” branding rather than neutral text. The irregularity adds character and motion, giving words a lively, stompy presence.
The design appears intended to deliver an expressive, cut-out display voice: sturdy, highly graphic, and deliberately irregular to feel handmade. Its faceted construction and dense texture aim to create immediate impact and a themed mood rather than typographic neutrality.
The face reads best at larger sizes where the interior cut-ins and angled terminals remain clear; at smaller sizes the tight counters and rugged edges can visually fill in. Letterforms rely on straight segments and polygonal curves, producing a consistent “chopped” texture across lines of text.