Sans Faceted Jive 5 is a regular weight, wide, monoline, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, branding, packaging, signage, techno, futuristic, industrial, arcade, mechanical, sci‑fi aesthetic, technical clarity, geometric system, modular styling, angular, faceted, chamfered, octagonal, geometric.
A geometric, faceted sans built from straight strokes with consistent thickness and frequent chamfered corners. Curves are replaced by planar angles, producing octagonal bowls in letters like O and rounded forms elsewhere. Terminals are mostly blunt, with occasional clipped diagonals that create a modular, engineered rhythm. Proportions lean wide with compact counters and mostly closed apertures, and the lowercase follows a single-storey, simplified construction that keeps the texture even in longer text.
Best suited to display applications where the faceted geometry can read clearly: sci‑fi or gaming headlines, tech/industrial branding, packaging, and environmental or wayfinding-style signage. It can work for short UI labels or section headers, but dense paragraph text may feel visually active due to the many angled joins.
The sharp, polygonal construction gives the face a futuristic, machine-made tone associated with sci‑fi interfaces, arcade hardware, and industrial labeling. Its steady monoline presence and repeated chamfers feel precise and technical rather than friendly or calligraphic.
The design appears intended to translate a geometric sans skeleton into an all-straight, chamfered system, prioritizing a crisp, engineered aesthetic and strong thematic voice over traditional typographic softness.
The polygonal handling is consistent across caps, lowercase, and numerals, which helps maintain a coherent texture in mixed-case settings. Distinctive details include the octagonal zero and the overall reliance on angled joins, which can make small sizes look busy but becomes striking at display scale.