Pixel Other Novo 5 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, game ui, headlines, album art, branding, arcade, industrial, cryptic, retro, tactical, stylization, texture, impact, coded look, signage feel, faceted, stenciled, notched, angular, modular.
A modular, faceted display face built from chunky vertical stems and clipped, diamond-like terminals. Counters and joins are formed by deliberate cut-ins that create a stenciled, segmented rhythm, giving many letters a broken or notched interior. The outlines stay crisp and geometric, with a tall, compact stance and tight internal spacing; diagonals are simplified into stepped, beveled shapes rather than smooth curves. Overall texture is dense and high-impact, with distinctive “X” and lozenge motifs appearing in several glyphs and figures.
Best suited to short, high-contrast settings such as posters, titles, cover art, game UI headings, and brand marks that want a coded or industrial tone. It can work for pull quotes or brief paragraphs when set with generous size and spacing, but the segmented details make it less ideal for long-form reading at small text sizes.
The font reads as mechanical and coded—somewhere between arcade signage and industrial labeling. Its fractured, segmented construction suggests encryption, hazard marking, or a dystopian tech aesthetic, while the faceted blackletter-like silhouettes add a medieval-cryptic undertone.
The design appears intended to merge a quantized, modular construction with blackletter-inspired silhouettes, producing a bold display voice that feels both retro-digital and hard-edged. Its consistent faceting and repeated internal cut patterns suggest a focus on texture and emblematic impact over conventional text neutrality.
Legibility holds best at larger sizes where the interior cutouts remain clear; at smaller sizes the notches can visually merge into solid blocks. Numerals and capitals feel especially emblematic, functioning well as standalone marks or headings due to their strong, repeated geometric motifs.