Sans Normal Gunum 8 is a light, very narrow, monoline, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, branding, packaging, book covers, quirky, playful, handmade, friendly, casual, compact display, friendly tone, hand-drawn feel, space saving, condensed, tall, airy, rounded, open counters.
A tall, condensed sans with a consistent single-stroke feel and gently rounded terminals. Curves are smooth and slightly irregular in a hand-drawn way, giving round letters (C, O, Q, S) an organic, softened geometry rather than strict mechanical symmetry. The lowercase is compact with modest bowls and relatively short extenders compared to the tall capitals, while ascenders remain prominent. Numerals follow the same narrow, linear construction, with simple forms and open interior spaces that keep the texture light and uncluttered.
Best suited to display settings where a compact width is useful—headlines, posters, product packaging, and logo or wordmark explorations. It can also work for short blurbs or captions when a friendly, handmade tone is desired, though the condensed proportions suggest keeping longer passages at comfortable sizes and with ample leading.
The overall tone is informal and approachable, with a lightly whimsical rhythm that reads as human and personable rather than technical. Its narrow, tall silhouettes create a lively vertical bounce, lending a slightly eccentric, cartoon-adjacent charm without becoming decorative to the point of illegibility.
The design appears intended to provide a clean sans foundation with a hand-rendered personality—narrow and space-efficient, yet softened through rounded forms and subtle irregularities to feel approachable and distinctive.
Spacing appears moderately open for such a condensed design, helping prevent dark vertical striping in text. Distinctive narrow diagonals and compressed bowls give words a tight footprint, while the rounded joins and softened corners keep the line of text from feeling rigid.