Sans Faceted Nyhu 8 is a bold, very narrow, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, packaging, signage, industrial, gothic, mechanical, authoritative, retro, impact, modernize gothic, signage feel, hard-edged texture, angular, faceted, chiseled, octagonal, monolinear.
This typeface is built from sharp, planar facets that replace curves with angled segments, producing an octagonal, chiseled silhouette across both capitals and lowercase. Strokes read as largely monolinear with crisp terminals, frequent pointed joins, and occasional small interior cut-ins that add a carved, stencil-like bite without breaking the forms. Counters are compact and polygonal, and the overall rhythm is tight and vertical, with condensed letterforms that maintain clear stems and strong edges in text. Numerals and capitals echo the same faceted geometry, giving the set a consistent, engineered texture.
Best suited for display applications such as headlines, posters, album/game titles, logos, and bold packaging where its faceted edges can read clearly. It can also work for short signage or labels that benefit from a hard, industrial voice, but the dense angular detail is most effective when given sufficient size and spacing.
The font conveys a stern, industrial tone with a gothic/blackletter echo, but translated into a cleaner, machine-cut geometry. Its sharp angles and compact spacing create a forceful, no-nonsense voice suited to dramatic, high-contrast messaging. The overall impression is retro-mechanical and slightly menacing, like signage cut from metal or stone.
The design appears intended to reinterpret gothic rigidity through a modern, faceted construction, emphasizing cut-metal or carved-letter aesthetics while keeping letterforms simple and sans-like in structure. It prioritizes a distinctive surface texture and strong vertical presence for impactful display typography.
Text samples show good consistency of the faceted construction at display sizes, where the pointed apexes and clipped corners become a defining texture. The lowercase retains the same angular logic as the uppercase, helping mixed-case settings feel unified rather than decorative add-ons.