Wacky Vose 2 is a bold, very wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, game ui, album covers, film titles, sci‑fi, glitchy, industrial, edgy, retro-futurist, futuristic impact, textural edge, tech branding, attention grab, rounded, stencil-like, inline breaks, distressed, angular.
A chunky, extended display face built from rounded-rectangle forms and squared terminals, with frequent inline cuts and fragmented edges that create a pseudo-stencil, distressed silhouette. Many glyphs use open counters and segmented strokes, producing a layered look where thick bands are interrupted by thin gaps and occasional jagged notches. Curves are generally geometric and controlled (notably in C/O/Q), while diagonals and joins (A/K/V/W/X/Y/Z) introduce sharper, more aggressive angles. Spacing and widths vary noticeably across the set, reinforcing an irregular, experimental rhythm despite a consistent underlying geometry.
Best suited to short display settings where its broken, banded strokes can read as intentional texture—such as posters, title cards, sci‑fi or industrial branding, game UI headings, and music/entertainment artwork. It works particularly well at medium-to-large sizes where the inline cuts and distressed details remain legible and contribute to the overall effect.
The overall tone is futuristic and mechanical, with a hacked or corrupted texture that reads as techno and slightly menacing. The intermittent breaks and scratch-like intrusions add a sense of motion and interference, giving the face a gritty, high-energy personality suited to stylized, attention-grabbing messaging.
The design appears intended to blend a wide techno skeleton with intentional disruption—inline breaks and roughened edges—to create a distinctive, one-off display voice. It aims for a futuristic, manufactured feel while avoiding a clean corporate finish, favoring character and visual noise over neutrality.
In longer lines of text the repeated inline gaps become a defining texture, creating a striped, “cut-out” pattern across words. Numerals match the same segmented construction and wide stance, with strong horizontal emphasis in figures like 2, 3, 5, 8, and 9.