Sans Normal Bafu 1 is a very bold, narrow, high contrast, reverse italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, album art, horror titles, gothic, dramatic, poster, edgy, occult, impact, theming, drama, texture, stylization, angular, compressed, tall, slanted, blackletter-like.
A tall, tightly set display face with sharply angled terminals and a pronounced backward slant. Strokes are strongly modulated, producing crisp, blade-like joins and wedge-shaped ends that read as chiseled rather than rounded. Counters are compact and often pinched, giving letters a tense, vertical rhythm and a distinctly faceted texture across words. The overall construction favors narrow interior spaces and dramatic diagonals, creating a dense, graphic silhouette in both uppercase and lowercase.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, event flyers, game or film titles, band/album graphics, and logo wordmarks where its jagged texture can be appreciated. It works well for themed packaging and branding that leans dark, medieval, or occult, and for large-scale signage where the compressed, vertical rhythm reads as intentional style.
The font conveys a dark, theatrical tone with clear echoes of gothic signage and vintage horror titling. Its backward-leaning stance and sharp cuts add urgency and attitude, making text feel assertive and slightly ominous. The dense black shapes and jagged details create a ritualistic, metal-adjacent flavor that reads as bold and provocative rather than friendly.
The design appears intended as a dramatic display face that merges a modern, chiseled construction with blackletter-adjacent energy, prioritizing texture, attitude, and silhouette over neutral readability. The backward slant and sharp wedge terminals suggest a deliberate attempt to create motion and menace while keeping a consistent, tightly packed rhythm across the alphabet and numerals.
In the sample text, the spiky detail and tight counters build a strong texture line-to-line, which can look striking at headline sizes but becomes busy in long passages. Letterforms with multiple verticals (such as M, N, W) concentrate darkness and amplify the vertical rhythm, while curved letters show angular carving that keeps the texture consistent. Numerals and lowercase maintain the same cut, slanted logic for cohesive titling.