Sans Contrasted Pupe 13 is a very bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, signage, branding, packaging, industrial, retro, display, authoritative, mechanical, impact, distinctiveness, poster, stencil-like, squared, condensed feel, cut-ins, modular.
A heavy, high-impact sans with squared proportions and pronounced vertical emphasis. Strokes show clear thick–thin modulation: dense verticals pair with lighter joins and horizontals, creating a carved, poster-like rhythm. Many letters incorporate sharp internal notches and cut-ins that break counters into geometric shapes, producing a semi-stenciled, modular construction without overt serifs. Curves are tightly controlled and often resolve into blunt terminals or angular transitions, giving the alphabet a compact, engineered silhouette.
Best suited to headlines, posters, and short bursts of copy where its strong contrast and notched construction can be appreciated. It works well for signage-style applications, branding marks, packaging titles, and event graphics that benefit from a bold, industrial-leaning voice.
The overall tone is forceful and utilitarian, with a retro-industrial flavor. Its notched detailing and chunky massing evoke signage, machinery labeling, and bold editorial headlines, projecting confidence and a slightly austere, mechanical character.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a distinctive, constructed texture—combining a sans foundation with sculpted counters and deliberate cutaways to create a memorable display face for attention-driven typography.
The distinctive cut-ins add texture and identity but also increase visual noise at smaller sizes; the face reads best when given space. Numerals match the same blocky, sculpted logic, reinforcing the uniform, display-oriented personality across letters and figures.