Sans Faceted Lake 5 is a regular weight, normal width, low contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, logotypes, posters, packaging, signage, techno, industrial, futuristic, mechanical, retro digital, display impact, tech branding, industrial labeling, sci-fi styling, geometric construction, faceted, angular, beveled, octagonal, monolinear.
This typeface is built from straight strokes and clipped corners, replacing curves with planar facets that read like chamfered metal or a segmented display. Strokes are largely monolinear with crisp terminals and consistent joins, producing a clean, engineered rhythm. Counters tend to be compact and angular, and round letters (such as O and C) resolve into octagonal silhouettes. In text, the compact interior spaces and frequent corner cuts create a slightly staccato texture, with clear letter separation and a hard-edged silhouette.
Best suited for display settings where the angular construction can read at a glance: headlines, posters, branding marks, packaging, and signage. It also works well for UI-style titling, product naming, and short labels, especially in tech, gaming, and industrial contexts where a faceted, engineered texture is desirable.
The overall tone is technical and utilitarian, with a sci‑fi and industrial flavor that feels at home in interfaces, machinery labeling, and retro-futurist graphics. Its faceted construction suggests precision and fabrication—more “manufactured” than handwritten or editorial—giving it an assertive, schematic presence.
The design appears intended to translate geometric sans proportions into a faceted, fabricated aesthetic, emphasizing hard corners, consistent stroke logic, and an industrial silhouette. It prioritizes visual character and thematic texture over neutral text continuity, making it particularly effective as a distinctive voice for titles and identity work.
Capitals come across as more emblematic and geometric, while the lowercase introduces more idiosyncratic, constructed shapes that emphasize the font’s custom display character. Numerals share the same clipped, segmented logic, reinforcing a cohesive, system-like look across alphanumerics.