Sans Other Ohpa 9 is a bold, narrow, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, packaging, album art, industrial, playful, retro, game-like, mechanical, display impact, distinctiveness, retro tech, handmade feel, graphic texture, angular, blocky, geometric, chiseled, irregular.
A compact, block-built sans with angular contours and a distinctly handcrafted rigidity. Strokes are heavy and largely uniform, with squared terminals, sharp corners, and occasional wedge-like cuts that create an uneven, slightly distorted silhouette. Counters tend to be small and often squarish, and many curves are simplified into faceted shapes, producing a mechanical, stencil-adjacent feel without fully breaking forms apart. Spacing and widths vary noticeably across glyphs, giving lines a lively, jittery rhythm even at consistent point sizes.
Best suited to posters, headlines, and branding moments where texture and personality are more important than quiet readability. It can work well for packaging, album/cover art, event graphics, and game or tech-themed titles, especially at medium to large sizes where the angular cut-ins and compact counters remain clear.
The overall tone reads industrial and game-like, with a playful roughness that suggests cut-paper, carved signage, or pixel-era display lettering translated into chunky vector forms. It feels bold and energetic rather than refined, lending a slightly rebellious, DIY attitude to headlines and short phrases.
The design appears intended to deliver a strong, compact display voice using geometric, blocky construction and purposeful irregularities to avoid a purely modular look. Its letterforms prioritize impact and stylized rhythm, aiming for a distinctive industrial/retro feel that stands out quickly in bold typographic compositions.
Distinctive details like boxy bowls, angular diagonals, and quirky internal cutouts make individual letters highly characterful, but also emphasize a display-first personality. The figures match the same squared, faceted construction, supporting attention-grabbing numerals in layouts.