Sans Faceted Asfy 5 is a very bold, normal width, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, packaging, signage, playful, posterish, chunky, retro, quirky, impact, personality, display, retro feel, blocky, geometric, angular, faceted, chiseled.
A heavy, block-driven sans with planar facets that replace smooth curves, giving counters and outer strokes a cut, chiseled look. Letterforms are built from broad strokes with squared terminals, slightly irregular geometry, and subtly shifting widths that create a lively, uneven rhythm. Openings and counters tend toward squarish shapes, and joins are simplified into abrupt angles rather than continuous curves, keeping the silhouette crisp and graphic at display sizes. Numerals follow the same chunky construction, with tight, rectangular apertures and strong, poster-friendly silhouettes.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, headlines, badges, and event graphics where the bold silhouettes can carry from a distance. It can also work for playful brand marks, packaging callouts, and large-format signage, but is less suited to long passages due to its dense texture and attention-grabbing irregularity.
The overall tone is bold and upbeat, with a handmade, cartoon-leaning energy that reads as friendly rather than formal. Its faceted shapes evoke cut-paper, woodblock, or carved signage aesthetics, lending a nostalgic, mid-century poster vibe with a mischievous edge.
The font appears designed to deliver maximum visual impact with a distinctive faceted construction, combining simple sans structure with a carved, geometric surface treatment. Its goal is personality and legibility at large sizes, favoring graphic presence and a lively rhythm over typographic neutrality.
The design’s intentionally imperfect rhythm—visible in varying character widths and slightly inconsistent curvature-to-angle transitions—adds personality and motion, especially in longer lines. Dense black shapes and compact internal space make it most effective when given room to breathe through generous tracking and line spacing.