Sans Other Role 5 is a very bold, normal width, monoline, upright, normal x-height font visually similar to 'Manufaktur' by Great Scott (names referenced only for comparison).
Keywords: posters, titles, logos, packaging, signage, techno, arcade, industrial, sci-fi, utilitarian, display impact, tech aesthetic, industrial labeling, arcade styling, squared, blocky, angular, modular, geometric.
A heavy, squared-off sans with a modular, rectilinear construction and consistently thick strokes. Corners are predominantly right-angled with occasional small chamfers and notch-like cuts that create a pixel-adjacent, engineered feel. Counters tend to be compact and often rectangular, giving letters a dense, stencil-like presence without fully breaking forms. Spacing and rhythm read tight and deliberate, and the overall silhouette favors tall, boxy shapes with a mechanical steadiness across upper- and lowercase as well as numerals.
Best suited to display applications where impact and a technical voice are desirable, such as posters, game and sci-fi titling, UI headers, product packaging, and short-form signage. It can also work for badges, labels, and branding marks that benefit from a rigid, industrial geometry.
The tone is distinctly techno and game-adjacent, evoking arcade UI, embedded displays, and industrial labeling. Its sharp geometry and dense forms communicate toughness and precision rather than softness or elegance, lending a futuristic, utilitarian attitude to headlines.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, modular sans with a futuristic, machine-made character. By emphasizing squared contours, compact counters, and small notches, it aims for high recognition and a strong, technological texture in headlines and branding.
Many glyphs use interior cut-ins and squared bowls to maintain a consistent grid logic, producing strong texture in lines of text. The design’s compact apertures and heavy joins create high impact at display sizes, while the tight internal space can feel busy in extended reading.