Sans Other Epko 5 is a very bold, very wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, game ui, logotypes, packaging, arcade, industrial, sci‑fi, techno, stencil, impact, futurism, industrial feel, digital retro, display voice, blocky, angular, squared, modular, notched.
A heavy, block-driven sans built from squared forms with pronounced chamfered corners and frequent notches. Counters are small and often rectangular, giving letters like O, P, and e a cut-out, almost stencil-like interior. Strokes are largely uniform with crisp right angles, and several glyphs show asymmetric cutbacks that create a mechanical rhythm across words. The overall texture is dense and high-impact, with tight internal spaces and strong, flat terminals.
Best suited to display settings where its chunky geometry and notched details can be appreciated—headlines, posters, branding marks, esports or arcade-themed graphics, and UI titles for games or tech products. It performs especially well in short phrases, labels, and impact-driven layouts where a strong, engineered voice is desired.
The font projects a rugged, machine-made attitude with a distinctly game/arcade and tech-industrial flavor. Its angular cuts and compact counters evoke warning labels, sci‑fi interfaces, and retro digital aesthetics, reading assertive and punchy rather than neutral.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a modular, machined construction—combining squared silhouettes, chamfers, and stencil-like counters to create a bold, futuristic display voice that feels both retro-digital and industrial.
In the sample text, the design maintains strong word shapes through distinctive diagonals on letters like K, V, W, X, and Y, while squared bowls and minimal apertures keep the tone compact. The small counters and sharp notches become prominent features at larger sizes and can visually fill in when reduced, especially in enclosed letters and numerals.