Sans Other Semo 4 is a regular weight, very narrow, monoline, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, branding, signage, packaging, art deco, retro, architectural, mechanical, noir, compact impact, retro modernism, signage voice, distinctiveness, condensed, geometric, angular, squared, tapered terminals.
A condensed display sans built from straight, even strokes with minimal contrast and a strong geometric backbone. Curves are tightened into rounded-rectangle bowls and narrow apertures, while corners often resolve into crisp angles or subtle chamfers that give the outlines a cut, machined feel. Many joins and terminals show small wedge-like notches or tapered endings, adding bite to otherwise monoline forms. Overall spacing is compact and vertical, producing a tall, rhythmic texture with distinctive, slightly quirky letterforms in both uppercase and lowercase.
Best suited to short-form display settings where its condensed geometry and angular detailing can be appreciated—posters, headlines, logos, packaging, and wayfinding-style signage. It can work in brief text lines at larger sizes, but its tight construction and stylized terminals make it most effective when given space and scale.
The font reads as vintage-modern: sleek, city-like, and slightly theatrical. Its narrow proportions and sharp detailing evoke early 20th‑century signage and poster lettering, with a cool, utilitarian edge that can also feel noir or sci‑fi depending on context.
The design appears intended to deliver a compact, high-impact sans voice with retro-architectural character, borrowing from Art Deco-inspired proportions while adding distinctive notches and tapered terminals for recognizability in display use.
Distinctive glyph behavior includes pointed or notched terminals on several letters, narrow bowls on forms like O/D/Q, and a stylized, symmetric W that emphasizes verticality. Numerals follow the same condensed, squared-curve logic, keeping a consistent, sign-painterly rhythm across alphanumerics.