Sans Faceted Urzi 9 is a very bold, very wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, game titles, album covers, edgy, industrial, arcade, futuristic, brutalist, impact, stylization, texture, retro tech, assertiveness, angular, chiseled, faceted, blocky, compressed counters.
A heavy, angular display sans built from planar facets rather than smooth curves. Strokes are broad and largely uniform, with abrupt joints, sharp corners, and slightly irregular, hand-cut geometry that produces a rugged rhythm across words. Counters tend to be small and polygonal, and many forms show wedge-like notches and flattened terminals that emphasize a carved, mechanical look. The lowercase is compact with sturdy stems and short extenders, while figures are equally blocky and tightly enclosed, maintaining strong color and dense texture in text.
Best suited for large-scale display settings where impact matters more than long-form readability—posters, title cards, branding wordmarks, game/UI headings, and merchandise graphics. It can also work for short pull quotes or packaging callouts when a tough, angular voice is desired.
The overall tone is aggressive and high-impact, evoking arcade titles, sci‑fi interfaces, and industrial labeling. Its fractured, chiseled construction reads as energetic and confrontational, with a playful edge that suggests retro game graphics and comic-book action lettering.
The letterforms appear intended to deliver maximum visual punch through dense weight, sharp faceting, and compressed counters, translating a carved/armored aesthetic into a clean sans framework for modern display typography.
The design’s faceting introduces subtle left/right asymmetries and varying internal apertures from glyph to glyph, which adds motion and character but reduces calm readability at smaller sizes. Spacing appears tuned for headline use, with a compact internal structure and strong black mass that holds together well in short phrases.