Sans Other Kyma 4 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, children’s, signage, playful, quirky, hand-cut, cartoon, handmade feel, novelty display, youthful tone, high impact, irregular, wobbly, chunky, high-ink, condensed.
A compact, high-impact sans with tall proportions and noticeably irregular, hand-shaped contours. Strokes are heavy and slightly uneven, with subtle waviness in verticals and asymmetric curves that create a cut-paper feel rather than geometric precision. Counters tend to be small and tight, terminals are mostly blunt, and many letters show gently tapered or pinched joins that add a lively, handmade rhythm. Overall spacing feels compact and punchy, with letter widths varying from glyph to glyph for an intentionally uneven texture.
Well-suited for display applications where personality matters: posters, headlines, short calls-to-action, packaging, stickers, and playful signage. It can work effectively in short paragraphs for novelty or themed materials, but its tight counters and irregular stroke behavior favor larger sizes and moderate amounts of text.
The font reads as playful and mischievous, with a friendly “handmade poster” energy. Its bouncy irregularity and chunky silhouettes evoke children’s media, novelty signage, and lighthearted display typography rather than neutral text setting.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, hand-cut sans voice with deliberate irregularity and compact proportions, prioritizing character and immediacy over typographic neutrality. It aims to create a strong silhouette and a lively rhythm that feels crafted rather than engineered.
Round letters like O/Q and numerals such as 0/8/9 appear more bulbous and weighty, while straight-sided forms (E, F, L, T, 1) look narrow and slightly tilted or wavered, enhancing the informal rhythm. In the sample text, the dense color and tight counters keep lines visually strong, but the uneven outlines and narrow interiors suggest it performs best at larger sizes.