Sans Contrasted Fifi 2 is a very bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, game ui, packaging, retro, techno, industrial, arcade, stencil-like, futuristic branding, industrial voice, retro display, geometric impact, blocky, angular, squared, notched, ink-trap.
A heavy, geometric sans built from squared bowls and straight, modular strokes with frequent 45° chamfers and sharp interior corners. The glyphs show deliberate cut-ins and notches—often as rectangular counters or wedge-like joins—that create a segmented, almost stencil-like construction. Curves are minimized into rounded-rectangle shapes, and terminals are generally flat with occasional angled clipping. Spacing and rhythm feel compact and mechanical, with small counters and strong black mass that holds up as chunky silhouettes in both uppercase and lowercase.
Best suited to display contexts where the bold silhouette and carved details can be appreciated: headlines, posters, logo marks, game or tech-themed UI, and packaging or labels that benefit from a rugged, engineered look. It can work for short bursts of copy, but the tight counters and pronounced cut-ins are most effective at larger sizes.
The overall tone is bold and machine-made, evoking retro-futurist and arcade-era graphics as well as industrial labeling. Its chiseled corners and cutout details add a tactical, engineered feel that reads as energetic and slightly aggressive rather than friendly or neutral.
The font appears designed to deliver a futuristic, industrial voice through modular geometry and sculpted negative space. The notched construction and angular joins suggest an intention to reference machine lettering and retro digital aesthetics while remaining clearly typographic and punchy.
Distinctive corner cutaways and tight apertures create a textured surface in running text, producing a characteristic “pixel/terminal” flavor without being purely grid-based. The design’s strong geometric logic makes word shapes feel rigid and rhythmic, while the notches add visual interest at display sizes.