Sans Faceted Nyde 7 is a bold, very narrow, monoline, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, labels, branding, industrial, condensed, technical, retro, assertive, space saving, industrial voice, signage impact, geometric system, angular, octagonal, chamfered, geometric, tall.
A tightly condensed, monolinear sans with tall proportions and squared geometry. Curves are consistently replaced by planar, faceted corners and small chamfers, giving bowls and rounds an octagonal feel. Strokes stay even in thickness with flat, squared terminals, and the overall rhythm is vertical and compact with narrow counters and crisp interior corners. Lowercase forms are compact with a noticeably modest x-height and minimal modulation, maintaining a strict, engineered consistency across letters and numerals.
Best suited to display settings where condensed width and sharp geometry can create impact: posters, headlines, packaging labels, equipment-style signage, and brand marks that want a technical or industrial flavor. It can also work for short UI or overlay text when a compact, high-contrast silhouette is needed, but the tight counters suggest avoiding very small sizes for long reading.
The faceted construction and compressed stance convey an industrial, technical tone with a retro edge. It reads as utilitarian and authoritative, evoking labeling, machinery, and engineered signage rather than soft, conversational text.
The font appears designed to translate a utilitarian sans into a faceted, machined form—prioritizing compact width, crisp edges, and a consistent angular system to achieve a distinctive technical voice in display typography.
The design relies on consistent corner-cutting as its signature motif, creating a pixel-adjacent, machined look without becoming fully gridlike. Numerals and capitals share the same angular logic, keeping a cohesive, display-forward texture in lines of text.