Outline Life 9 is a very light, wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, logos, posters, sports branding, gaming ui, retro, techy, sporty, playful, arcade, display impact, graphic styling, retro tech, sport emphasis, signage clarity, octagonal, chamfered, monoline, outlined, geometric.
A monoline outline face built from squared forms with consistent chamfered (octagonal) corners. Strokes are rendered as a single open contour with uniform line weight and rounded joins inside the contour, producing a clean “hollow” look with ample interior space. Curves are largely implied through stepped corners rather than true rounds, and counters tend toward rectangular shapes. Proportions run broad with generous letter widths and open apertures, giving the design a stable, blocky rhythm across caps, lowercase, and numerals.
Best suited to display sizes where the outline can remain crisp: headlines, posters, packaging accents, and logo or wordmark work that benefits from an athletic/arcade flavor. It can also work for short UI labels, badges, and titles, especially when paired with a solid fill or contrasting background to support the hollow stroke.
The overall tone feels retro-futuristic and game-adjacent—like scoreboard lettering or an arcade UI—while staying friendly and approachable due to the softened corner treatment. Its outlined construction reads energetic and graphic, leaning toward sporty display styling rather than formal text typography.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, graphic silhouette through wide, chamfered geometry while keeping the texture light by using outline-only strokes. Its consistent corner language and simplified construction suggest an emphasis on clarity, repeatable shapes, and a retro-tech personality.
Lowercase echoes the angular logic of the caps, with single-storey forms where applicable and simplified terminals that maintain the chamfer motif. Numerals are similarly squared and emblematic, with the 0 rendered as a rectangular ring and other figures built from straight runs and clipped corners for consistency.