Sans Other Tubop 1 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, branding, titles, quirky, handmade, playful, offbeat, retro, expressiveness, distinctiveness, compact setting, informality, condensed, tall, bouncy, uneven, monolinear.
A tall, condensed sans with subtly irregular contours and a hand-drawn steadiness. Strokes read mostly monolinear with occasional swelling at curves, and terminals are generally blunt with slight softening rather than crisp geometric cuts. The letterforms mix rounded bowls with narrow vertical stems, producing a lively rhythm where widths and sidebearings vary from glyph to glyph. Counters tend to be compact and vertical, and curves are slightly eccentric, giving the set a deliberately imperfect, human-made texture.
Best suited to display settings where personality matters—headlines, posters, packaging, and brand marks that want a quirky, handcrafted tone. It can work for short bursts of text (taglines, pull quotes, captions) when a condensed footprint is helpful, but the lively irregularities make it most effective at larger sizes.
The overall tone is quirky and approachable, with a lighthearted, DIY personality. Its narrow, towering silhouettes and gently wobbly curves evoke a retro poster or cartoon-title energy rather than a neutral corporate voice. The uneven rhythm adds character and charm, making text feel conversational and a bit mischievous.
The design appears intended to deliver a condensed sans that feels human and expressive rather than strictly geometric. By combining tall proportions with intentionally uneven curves and spacing, it aims to stand out in display typography while remaining straightforward enough for simple text setting in short phrases.
In paragraph-like samples the condensed proportions create strong vertical momentum, while the variable widths and irregular stroke behavior add visual movement across a line. The font’s distinctive shapes are most noticeable in rounded characters and diagonals, which lean into a slightly eccentric, animated feel.