Sans Faceted Lyfa 8 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, branding, gaming ui, packaging, industrial, techno, futuristic, game-like, mechanical, sci-fi styling, industrial feel, display impact, systematic geometry, angular, faceted, octagonal, modular, monolinear.
A geometric, faceted sans built from straight strokes and clipped corners that substitute for curves, producing an octagonal, planed silhouette throughout. Stems are sturdy and mostly uniform in thickness, with abrupt terminals and tight interior counters in letters like B, 8, and e. Uppercase forms read as compact and architectural, while the lowercase maintains the same hard-edged construction with simplified bowls and diagonals. Overall spacing appears fairly tight and rhythmically consistent, emphasizing a crisp, blocky texture in text.
Best suited to headlines, titles, posters, and identity work where its angular construction can be a defining visual element. It also fits gaming or sci‑fi themed interfaces and packaging that benefits from a technical, fabricated texture; for long passages, more generous size and leading will help preserve clarity.
The design projects a mechanical, techno-forward tone with a distinctly constructed feel, like lettering cut from metal or assembled from modular pieces. Its sharp facets and squared-off apertures give it an assertive, no-nonsense voice that leans futuristic and game-interface adjacent rather than friendly or calligraphic.
The letterforms appear designed to translate a contemporary sans skeleton into a faceted, machine-cut vocabulary, prioritizing sharp geometry and consistent planar cuts over optical softness. The intent seems to be a distinctive display face that remains systematic across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals for cohesive, high-impact typography.
Legibility remains strong at display sizes, but the angular joins and small counters can create dark spots in dense settings. Numerals follow the same clipped geometry, with notably squared shapes (e.g., 0 and 8) that reinforce the engineered aesthetic.