Sans Other Faba 5 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, branding, logotypes, packaging, industrial, retro, arcade, techno, assertive, impact, signage, retro tech, display, geometric voice, geometric, angular, squarish, chamfered, modular.
A heavy, blocky sans with a modular, rectilinear construction and strongly squared counters. Strokes are predominantly vertical and horizontal, with occasional chamfered corners and notch-like cut-ins that give letters a machined, carved look. Curves are minimized; bowls and rounds are rendered as squarish forms with tight interior apertures, producing dense, compact silhouettes. Spacing and rhythm feel deliberate and grid-minded, with a consistent pixel-adjacent geometry across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, headlines, titles, and bold branding elements. It also works well for game- or tech-adjacent graphics, packaging, and signage-style compositions where a robust, geometric voice is desired, while small sizes and long passages may feel dense due to tight counters and heavy texture.
The overall tone is bold and mechanical, evoking industrial signage and retro-digital display aesthetics. Its angular cuts and squared forms suggest a utilitarian, engineered attitude with a distinctly arcade/tech flavor.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum visual punch through a constructed, grid-based letterform system, combining signage-like solidity with retro-digital character. The consistent chamfers and squared counters suggest an aim for a distinctive, machined identity that reads as both industrial and playful.
Lowercase forms largely echo the uppercase’s rigid geometry, reinforcing a uniform, constructed feel rather than a calligraphic one. Numerals follow the same squarish logic with strong corners and blocky proportions, enhancing the font’s display-oriented presence.