Sans Faceted Kafo 3 is a bold, very wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, gaming ui, tech branding, techno, industrial, futuristic, gaming, mechanical, futuristic feel, industrial tone, geometric system, display impact, digital aesthetic, octagonal, chamfered, angular, blocky, modular.
A faceted, geometric sans built from straight strokes and clipped corners, replacing curves with octagonal, planar segments. The design carries a squared, wide stance with generous horizontal proportions, broad counters, and a largely even stroke weight. Terminals and joins are consistently chamfered, creating a crisp, machined silhouette; bowls and rounds read as multi-sided forms rather than true curves. Spacing appears relatively open for a display face, with sturdy, rectangular punctuation-like details and clean, hard edges that keep forms legible at larger sizes.
Best suited for display contexts where its angular facets can read clearly: headlines, posters, product marks, esports or gaming identities, and interface titling for tech or sci‑fi themes. It can work for short blocks of text in larger sizes, but its strong geometry is most effective when used as an accent typeface rather than for long-form reading.
The overall tone is techno and utilitarian, evoking industrial labeling, sci‑fi interfaces, and retro-digital hardware aesthetics. Its faceted geometry feels engineered and purposeful, communicating strength and precision more than warmth or informality.
The letterforms appear designed to translate a futuristic, industrial voice into a clean sans framework by systematically chamfering corners and polygonizing curves. The consistent faceting suggests an intention to feel engineered and digital while remaining straightforward and readable in bold, high-impact settings.
Uppercase forms are particularly rigid and architectural, while lowercase retains the same construction with simplified, angular bowls. Several glyphs show distinctive diagonal cut-ins and clipped corners that create a consistent “machined” rhythm across the alphabet and numerals, reinforcing a modular, system-like identity.