Sans Faceted Afpy 9 is a very bold, narrow, low contrast, upright, tall x-height font visually similar to 'Grand' by North Type and 'Denso' by Stefano Giliberti (names referenced only for comparison).
Keywords: headlines, posters, sports branding, team apparel, packaging, industrial, collegiate, military, retro, assertive, impact, space saving, ruggedness, display clarity, blocky, angular, chamfered, condensed, monoline.
This typeface is built from heavy, monoline strokes with crisp chamfered corners that replace curves with straight, faceted planes. Letterforms are compact and vertically emphasized, producing a tight, stacked rhythm with minimal interior counters and firm terminals. The geometry stays consistent across caps, lowercase, and numerals, with squared-off bowls and octagonal rounds that keep the texture dense and uniform in text.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as headlines, posters, badges, and identity marks where its angular mass can carry the design. It also fits sports and team branding, event graphics, and packaging that benefits from a bold, rugged texture.
The overall tone is tough and no-nonsense, blending an industrial, engineered feel with a collegiate/athletic sign-painting energy. Its sharp facets and dense silhouette read as authoritative and rugged, with a distinctly retro display character.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a compact footprint by using blocky, faceted construction and tight spacing cues. By replacing curves with chamfers, it creates a consistent, industrial display voice optimized for attention-grabbing titles and branded statements.
Caps have a strong poster-like presence, while the lowercase maintains the same angular construction for a unified voice rather than a softer text companion. Numerals follow the same chamfered logic, giving scoreboard-style clarity and a sturdy, utilitarian look.