Sans Faceted Aska 5 is a very bold, normal width, monoline, upright, tall x-height font visually similar to 'Hudson NY Pro' by Arkitype, 'Adhesive Letters JNL' by Jeff Levine, 'Evanston Alehouse' by Kimmy Design, 'Hemispheres' by Runsell Type, and 'Hockeynight Sans' by XTOPH (names referenced only for comparison).
Keywords: headlines, posters, sports branding, packaging, signage, athletic, industrial, assertive, retro, mechanical, impact, geometrics, ruggedness, display, chamfered, octagonal, blocky, compact, high-contrast counters.
A heavy, block-built sans with crisply chamfered corners that turn curves into planar facets. Strokes are consistently thick and squared off, with octagonal echoes in bowls and rounded forms, and a generally compact, rectangular footprint. Counters are tight and geometric, creating strong figure/ground contrast, while diagonals (in letters like A, K, V, W, X) are cut cleanly and maintain a sturdy, engineered rhythm. Lowercase forms keep the same angular construction and stout presence, and numerals follow the same faceted, cut-corner logic for a unified texture.
This design excels in display settings such as headlines, posters, and large-format signage where its angular cut-corner construction can read clearly and add character. It’s also well suited to sports and team-style branding, bold packaging, and label systems that benefit from a tough, geometric voice.
The overall tone is bold and no-nonsense, projecting an athletic, workmanlike energy with a distinctly retro, stencil-adjacent feel. Its sharp facets and dense weight give it a tough, mechanical voice suited to attention-grabbing statements rather than subtlety.
The letterforms appear intended to translate a traditional block sans into a faceted, planar aesthetic, replacing smooth curves with chamfered geometry to increase impact and visual grit. The consistent corner treatment and dense, rectangular proportions suggest a goal of creating a cohesive, high-presence display face for branding and titling.
The faceting is applied systematically across the set, making the font read especially well at larger sizes where the corner cuts become a defining stylistic feature. The dense internal spaces suggest it will look strongest with a bit of breathing room in tracking and line spacing, particularly in all-caps headlines.