Sans Other Birot 2 is a very bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, children’s, branding, playful, retro, hand-cut, quirky, friendly, display impact, handmade feel, retro flavor, playful voice, irregular, condensed, cartoonish, punchy, tapered.
A compact, heavy sans with irregular, hand-cut-looking construction and subtly shifting widths from glyph to glyph. Strokes are thick with gentle tapering and soft curvature, producing a slightly wobbly texture rather than a rigid geometric feel. Terminals are mostly blunt and rounded-off, counters are small and uneven, and curves (C, O, S) lean toward eggy, asymmetrical shapes. The lowercase shows simple, sturdy forms with single-storey a and g, a compact e, and a narrow, upright rhythm that stays legible even at display sizes.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, headlines, logos, and playful branding where a handmade feel is desirable. It can also work for packaging or event graphics that benefit from a bold, friendly voice, but its irregular texture is less suited to long-form reading at small sizes.
The overall tone is lively and informal, with a vintage, cartoon-title energy. Its irregularity reads as handmade and approachable, adding personality and motion while staying bold and clear. The impression is more fun and expressive than neutral or corporate.
This design appears intended as an expressive display sans that mimics cut-paper or brushy marker lettering while keeping a clear alphabetic structure. The goal seems to be instant impact and personality through controlled irregularity rather than typographic neutrality.
Spacing appears intentionally loose and bouncy, with noticeable differences in sidebearings that enhance the hand-drawn rhythm in text. Numerals are stout and attention-grabbing, matching the same tapered, slightly uneven stroke behavior seen in the letters.