Sans Faceted Kafo 17 is a bold, very wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, logos, posters, gaming, interface, futuristic, techno, industrial, sci‑fi, aggressive, sci‑fi display, tech branding, industrial labeling, impactful voice, octagonal, angular, faceted, chamfered, modular.
A sharply faceted sans built from straight strokes and clipped corners, replacing curves with planar segments and chamfers. The forms lean on octagonal geometry: round letters like O/C/G are squared-off and notched, while diagonals (V, W, X, Y) are constructed from crisp, meeting planes. Counters are compact and often rectangular, apertures are tight, and terminals end in consistent cut angles, giving the face a hard-edged, engineered look. The rhythm is wide and punchy with squared shoulders and a slightly modular, stencil-like segmentation in places, while remaining solid and continuous overall.
Best suited for display contexts such as game titles, sci‑fi or tech branding, event posters, and product or vehicle-style labeling. It can also work for interface headers and short UI labels where a futuristic, engineered tone is desired, especially at medium-to-large sizes.
The overall tone reads futuristic and mechanical, with a confident, assertive presence that evokes interfaces, vehicles, and industrial labeling. Its hard facets and clipped joins suggest speed and precision, leaning into a sci‑fi/tech aesthetic rather than a neutral everyday voice.
The letterforms appear designed to translate a techno-industrial mood through consistent faceting and chamfered geometry, prioritizing a striking silhouette and thematic voice over text-centric neutrality. The systematized corner cuts and straightened curves aim to create a cohesive, machine-made feel across the alphabet and numerals.
The design relies on repeated corner cuts and straight-line construction to maintain coherence across cases and numerals, producing strong silhouette recognition at larger sizes. Tight apertures and small counters can visually fill in when reduced, so it tends to reward generous sizing and spacing.