Sans Other Lyly 4 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, event promos, logos, quirky, playful, retro, rowdy, folksy, novelty, handmade feel, attention grabbing, retro flavor, chunky, irregular, blobby, soft corners, wobbly baseline.
A heavy, chunky display sans with irregular, carved-looking contours and soft, rounded corners. Strokes feel hand-shaped rather than mechanically uniform, with subtle waviness along verticals and terminals that creates a lively, uneven rhythm. Counters are generally small and sometimes pinched, and several glyphs show slightly asymmetric bowls and notches, giving the alphabet an organic, cutout-like texture. Figures and lowercase follow the same robust, lumpy construction, prioritizing silhouette over fine detail.
Best suited for attention-grabbing display work such as posters, headlines, event promotions, and bold packaging labels where a handmade, offbeat voice is desirable. It can also work for logo wordmarks or badges when you want a chunky, memorable silhouette that stands out at a glance.
The overall tone is mischievous and nostalgic, evoking handmade signage and playful, slightly spooky headline lettering. Its bouncy irregularity reads informal and characterful rather than precise or corporate, lending a theatrical, novelty feel to short phrases.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold display presence with a deliberately irregular, handcrafted texture—more like stamped or cut lettering than a clean geometric sans—so text feels energetic and distinctive even in simple words.
In the sample text, the dense color and tight internal spaces make it feel most comfortable at larger sizes, where the distinctive notches and uneven edges can be appreciated. The lively outlines can introduce visual noise in long passages, but they add strong personality to titles and short bursts of copy.