Sans Other Wuse 9 is a very bold, very wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: logos, headlines, posters, game ui, tech branding, futuristic, tech, industrial, arcade, sci‑fi, display impact, tech aesthetic, sci‑fi styling, modular system, brand distinctiveness, rounded corners, square curves, stencil cuts, ink traps, modular.
A heavy, blocky sans with squarish contours softened by rounded corners and a distinctly modular construction. Strokes are thick and mostly monoline, with frequent rectangular counters and horizontal slots, giving letters a mechanical, machined feel. Several glyphs show deliberate cut-ins and stepped notches—suggestive of stencil breaks or ink-trap-like detailing—creating a pixel-adjacent texture without becoming fully bitmap. The overall rhythm is compact and rectangular, with simplified joins and consistent corner behavior that keeps the set cohesive in both uppercase and lowercase.
Best suited to logos, titles, packaging, and high-impact headlines where its geometric mass and cutout detailing can be appreciated. It also fits game interfaces, sci‑fi themed graphics, and technology branding that benefits from a constructed, hardware-like aesthetic. For long-form reading, it’s more effective in short bursts (labels, callouts, navigation) than in continuous body text.
The tone reads futuristic and engineered, with strong arcade and sci‑fi associations. Its chunky geometry and purposeful cutouts feel utilitarian and synthetic, projecting a confident, tech-forward voice that can also skew playful in game or gadget contexts.
The likely intent is a display sans that fuses rounded-rectangle geometry with stencil-like interruptions to create a distinctive, digital-industrial personality. The consistent modular logic and exaggerated interior slots appear designed to maintain clarity while delivering a strong sci‑fi/arcade signature.
The design emphasizes strong silhouettes and interior negative space (slots and boxy counters), which helps keep forms distinguishable at display sizes. The more idiosyncratic notches and breaks add character and motion, but they also make the texture busier in dense paragraphs, especially where many letters share similar rectangular structures.