Sans Other Koluz 8 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: display, headlines, posters, packaging, book covers, quirky, hand-cut, storybook, craft, retro, distinctive voice, handmade texture, display impact, retro charm, craft aesthetic, angular, flared, wedge-cut, uneven rhythm, ink-trap feel.
A stylized sans with chiseled, wedge-cut terminals and subtly flared strokes that create a carved or hand-cut silhouette. Curves are slightly squarish and faceted, with corners often sharpened into small points rather than smoothly rounded. The rhythm is intentionally irregular: stems lean and taper in small ways, counters vary in openness, and joins occasionally pinch, producing an ink-trap-like bite in places. Overall proportions feel compact and sturdy, with blocky shapes and distinctive, decorative terminal behavior that reads more crafted than geometric.
Best suited to display settings where its crafted texture can be appreciated—headlines, posters, packaging, and book covers. It can work for short passages in larger sizes when a playful, artisanal tone is desired, but its irregular rhythm and angular detailing make it more effective as an accent than as a long-form text face.
The font conveys a playful, handmade character—part folk craft, part retro display—with a lightly mischievous edge. Its pointed terminals and uneven texture add personality and motion, giving text a lively, story-driven tone rather than a neutral, corporate voice.
The design appears intended to deliver a distinctive, handmade sans voice by combining simple skeletal forms with carved, wedge-like terminals and faceted curves. The goal seems to be recognizable personality and a tactile, cut-from-paper or carved-from-wood impression while remaining broadly legible in display typography.
Uppercase forms stay relatively simple but gain identity through their wedge terminals and slightly quirky curvature, while lowercase introduces more idiosyncratic shapes that increase the handmade texture in running text. Numerals follow the same carved logic, with faceted bowls and angled cuts that keep them visually consistent with the alphabet.