Sans Other Esma 4 is a very bold, wide, very high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: display, headlines, posters, gaming, titles, techno, industrial, arcade, futuristic, aggressive, impact, sci-fi, modularity, branding, rectilinear, modular, angular, notched, stencil-like.
A blocky, modular sans built from rectilinear strokes and squared counters, with frequent chamfered corners and small notches that create a cut-out, almost stencil-like construction. Letterforms lean on strong verticals and flat terminals, with minimal curvature and tight interior apertures that emphasize a hard-edged, geometric rhythm. Spacing appears compact and the overall texture is dense, with distinctive corner cuts and stepped joins giving many glyphs a pixel-adjacent, engineered feel.
Best suited for short display settings where its angular detailing can be appreciated—titles, posters, game UI elements, tech/event branding, and impactful packaging callouts. It can work for brief bursts of text at larger sizes, but the tight counters and dense color make it less comfortable for long-form reading.
The font projects a techno-industrial tone: sharp, mechanical, and assertive. Its notched geometry and dense black shapes suggest arcade-era graphics, sci‑fi interfaces, and rugged machinery markings rather than neutral text typography.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, machine-made aesthetic through modular construction, creating strong silhouette recognition and a distinctive sci‑fi/arcade flavor while remaining broadly sans in structure.
Uppercase forms read as more architectural and monolithic, while lowercase keeps the same angular logic with simplified bowls and occasional open counters. Numerals follow the same squared, segmented vocabulary, maintaining consistent corner chamfers and cut-in details across the set.