Sans Other Gisy 3 is a very bold, very wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, game ui, logos, packaging, industrial, techno, arcade, brutalist, aggressive, high impact, futurism, machined look, retro tech, squared, octagonal, notched, stencil-like, modular.
A heavy, block-built sans with squared geometry and frequent chamfered corners. Forms are constructed from rigid rectangles with occasional diagonal cuts, producing a modular, almost stencil-like look with tight internal counters and slot-like apertures. Strokes maintain a consistent, monoline feel, while terminals are blunt and often notched, giving many glyphs a carved, mechanical silhouette. The rhythm is compact and dense, and the overall texture reads as a wall of black with crisp negative-space cutouts defining character detail.
Best suited for display settings such as posters, esports and gaming interfaces, album/track titles, bold packaging, and logo wordmarks where a strong, mechanical texture is desired. It can also work for short callouts, labels, and section headers in tech or industrial themes, especially when set with generous tracking or ample size to preserve the interior cutouts.
The design projects a hard-edged, industrial tone with strong sci‑fi and arcade signage associations. Its angular cuts and compressed apertures feel engineered and militant, creating a forceful, high-impact voice suited to energetic, technology-forward branding.
The letterforms appear designed to maximize impact through solid mass, geometric construction, and distinctive chamfered detailing, evoking machined signage and retro-futurist display typography. The consistent modular logic suggests an intention to look engineered and iconic rather than neutral or text-oriented.
Distinctive diagonal bites and inset voids provide differentiation between similar shapes, but the tight counters and dense color mean small sizes may reduce clarity. The font’s personality relies on those geometric cut-ins, so it performs best when there is enough scale for the internal slots and notches to remain visible.