Sans Contrasted Tabul 4 is a very bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, game titles, packaging, gothic, rugged, hand-cut, dramatic, medieval, atmosphere, impact, thematic display, heritage flavor, angular, chiseled, faceted, compressed, spiky.
This typeface uses tall, compact letterforms built from straight, faceted strokes and abrupt terminals. Curves are largely simplified into polygonal arcs, giving bowls and counters an angular, chiseled look. Stroke joins tend to form sharp points and notches, with subtly irregular edges that read as hand-cut rather than mechanically smooth. Spacing is tight and the overall texture is dense, while counters remain fairly open for a display face, especially in letters like O, D, and P.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings such as posters, title cards, headers, and branding moments where a gothic or dramatic voice is desired. It works well for entertainment contexts—album covers, event flyers, game titles, and themed packaging—where the carved, angular texture can become a key visual element. For longer passages, it is likely most effective in larger sizes with generous leading.
The overall tone is dark and theatrical, with a gothic, old-world flavor. Its jagged geometry and carved-looking terminals suggest intensity and menace, lending itself to horror, fantasy, and heavy music aesthetics. The slight roughness adds a handcrafted, poster-like energy rather than a polished corporate feel.
The design appears intended to evoke a carved or cut-letter aesthetic through faceted curves, sharp joins, and assertive vertical proportions. Its emphasis on strong silhouette and dense rhythm suggests a display-focused goal: delivering instant atmosphere and visual punch rather than neutral, continuous reading.
Lowercase forms echo the same faceted construction, with distinctive, angular bowls and pointed joins; the dotted i/j use small diamond-like dots that reinforce the geometric theme. Numerals follow the same cut-out rhythm, with especially strong presence in 4, 6, and 8. In text settings the dense vertical rhythm can dominate, so line spacing and size choice will strongly affect readability.