Sans Other Waku 12 is a bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, game titles, tech ui, techno, industrial, futuristic, game ui, mechanical, sci-fi branding, ui labeling, digital display, industrial tone, modular geometry, octagonal, modular, angular, stencil-like, monolinear.
A geometric, modular sans built from straight strokes and sharp corners, with frequent 45° chamfers that create an octagonal, cut-corner silhouette. Strokes are consistently heavy and largely monolinear, with squared terminals and tight, boxy counters (notably in forms like O, D, P, and 0). Curves are minimized in favor of segmented outlines, producing a rigid rhythm and a slightly compressed, grid-fit feel; diagonals appear selectively (e.g., in K, X, Z) as clean, straight joins. Lowercase mirrors the uppercase’s engineered construction, with simplified bowls and angular joins that keep the overall texture dense and uniform in text.
Best suited to display typography where the angular construction can read cleanly—such as headlines, posters, title cards, logos, game titles, and interface labels for tech or sci‑fi themed products. It can also work for short, high-impact callouts and signage-style graphics where a rigid, mechanical voice is desired.
The font reads as technological and utilitarian, evoking sci‑fi interfaces, industrial labeling, and arcade-era digital aesthetics. Its hard-edged geometry and chopped corners convey precision and toughness rather than warmth, giving headlines a distinctly engineered, machine-made tone.
The design appears intended to translate a grid-based, engineered aesthetic into a readable sans: reducing curves, standardizing stroke behavior, and using chamfered corners to suggest machined parts and digital systems. Its consistent modularity prioritizes a distinctive, futuristic texture and strong silhouette over conventional text neutrality.
The chamfered corners and boxed counters create strong internal negative shapes that stay crisp at display sizes, while the squared, modular structure can feel busy in long passages. Letterforms such as the angular U/V/W and the cut-corner O/0 family emphasize a constructed, schematic identity, and the numeral set matches the same rigid, segmented logic for consistent alphanumeric color.