Sans Other Obmu 1 is a very bold, normal width, low contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, game titles, album art, industrial, brutalist, aggressive, retro, arcade, impact, texture, edginess, sci-fi tone, display focus, angular, blocky, chiseled, stenciled, condensed caps.
A heavy, block-built sans with sharply angular terminals and irregular, chiseled-looking cut-ins. Letterforms are constructed from chunky straight strokes with frequent diagonal notches and asymmetric inner counters that feel carved rather than drawn. Corners are mostly crisp, with occasional tapered wedges that create a fractured rhythm across the alphabet. Proportions lean compact in the capitals while the lowercase keeps a large, simplified structure, and the numerals follow the same squared, slab-like geometry.
Best suited for large-scale display uses where the carved texture can be appreciated—posters, headlines, packaging accents, game or event titles, and bold wordmarks. It can also work for short callouts and signage-style messaging, but will be more effective in brief phrases than in long reading passages.
The overall tone is forceful and mechanical, with a gritty, fabricated character that reads as industrial and slightly dystopian. Its jagged cutouts and assertive mass also evoke retro game or sci‑fi titling, giving it a punchy, attention-grabbing presence.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact through mass and angular cutwork, combining a straightforward sans skeleton with purposeful nicks and wedges to create a rugged, fabricated look. It prioritizes graphic personality and texture over neutrality, aiming for strong branding and titling presence.
The distinctive interior cut shapes vary from glyph to glyph, adding an intentionally rough, hand-cut consistency rather than strict modular repetition. Spiky joins and narrow apertures can reduce clarity in dense settings, but they contribute strongly to the font’s signature texture.