Sans Faceted Syly 6 is a very bold, wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, packaging, sports branding, industrial, poster, retro, sporty, assertive, impact, geometric styling, faceted motif, display branding, faceted, blocky, angular, stenciled, compact apertures.
A heavy, geometric display face built from crisp planar facets rather than smooth curves. Strokes are broadly even, with corners clipped into chamfered angles that create octagonal counters in forms like O/0 and a distinctly cut, mechanical silhouette throughout. Many letters show narrowed apertures and deep interior notches, producing compact counters and a strong black mass that holds together at large sizes. Proportions read on the wide side overall, while individual glyph widths vary, giving the rhythm a slightly irregular, hand-cut sign quality despite the consistent faceting.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as headlines, posters, cover art, logos, badges, and packaging where the faceted silhouettes can read clearly. It can also work for sports- and game-adjacent branding, signage, or UI title treatments, while extended paragraphs may need generous size and spacing to avoid filling-in of small counters.
The faceted construction and dense weight project an industrial, hard-edged attitude with a hint of retro athletic and arcade poster energy. It feels loud and declarative—more about impact and character than neutrality—suited to attention-grabbing typography.
The design appears intended to translate a sans-serif skeleton into a chiseled, planar vocabulary, replacing curves with consistent chamfers for a bold, emblematic look. The goal seems to be maximum visual punch and recognizability at display sizes, with a distinctive angular texture that stays consistent across caps, lowercase, and numerals.
The family of shapes stays cohesive through repeated chamfers and flat terminals, with rounded letters and numerals rendered as polygonal forms. The lowercase maintains the same angular DNA as the caps, keeping the texture uniform in mixed-case settings. The overall color is very dark on the page, so spacing and line breaks become key for readability in longer text.