Sans Faceted Desu 1 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: sports branding, posters, headlines, logos, packaging, athletic, industrial, assertive, retro, impact, sporty, geometric styling, signage strength, octagonal, chamfered, blocky, compact, angular.
A heavy, block-built display sans with sharply chamfered corners and planar cuts that replace curves with faceted geometry. Strokes are uniform and stout, with squared terminals and frequent 45° bevels that create an octagonal rhythm across counters and outer contours. The lowercase is simplified and sturdy, with short ascenders/descenders and mostly rectangular bowls; apertures are tight and the interior spaces tend to be small, emphasizing a dense, dark texture. Figures follow the same cut-corner construction, producing strong, signage-like silhouettes.
Best suited to large-scale applications where the chamfered geometry can be seen clearly: sports branding, event posters, punchy headlines, bold logo wordmarks, and packaging callouts. It can also work for short UI labels or signage when generous size and spacing preserve the tight internal shapes.
The overall tone is forceful and utilitarian, evoking sports lettering, stenciled hardware, and retro arcade or sci‑fi titling. Its crisp facets and compact counters give it a tactical, no-nonsense feel that reads as energetic and bold rather than refined.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact through dense color, simplified letterforms, and consistent faceted corner cuts, producing an engineered, athletic display voice that stays clean and sans-based while feeling unmistakably angular.
The faceting is applied consistently across the set, so rounded letters (like O/C/G) become angular forms with clipped corners, and diagonals (like A/V/W/X/Y) feel structural and engineered. At smaller sizes the tight counters and dense color can merge, while at larger sizes the geometric cuts become a defining graphic feature.