Outline Kosu 8 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, logos, posters, sports, packaging, sporty, retro, arcade, comic, industrial, impact, branding, playfulness, athletics, nostalgia, outlined, inline, blocky, angular, chamfered.
A compact, block-built outline face with squared proportions and frequent chamfered corners. Strokes are rendered as a heavy outer contour with a consistent inner cutout, creating a hollow, inline-like rhythm across glyphs. The drawing favors straight segments and right angles, with selective diagonal joins on characters like K, M, N, V, W, X, and Y, and boxy counters in rounded forms such as O, Q, and 0. Terminals are mostly flat and clipped, producing a sturdy, sign-like texture and an even, mechanical cadence in all caps and lowercase alike.
Best suited for display settings where the outline construction can stay crisp: headlines, posters, logos, team or event graphics, and packaging callouts. It also fits digital titles and UI badges that want a retro arcade or athletic scoreboard flavor, especially when used at medium-to-large sizes.
The overall tone feels energetic and game-like, combining a varsity/scoreboard attitude with a retro arcade sensibility. The bold outline and squared geometry project confidence and impact, while the hollow construction adds a playful, sticker-like punch suited to attention-grabbing headlines.
The design appears intended as an assertive outline display font that maximizes impact through squared, modular shapes and a consistent hollow construction. Its geometry and clipped corners suggest a purpose-built style for bold branding, playful titles, and sporty or game-adjacent graphics.
Lowercase follows the same modular, squared construction as uppercase, giving the set a uniform, display-driven voice rather than a traditional text hierarchy. Numerals are similarly boxy and graphic, with strong interior counters and a consistent outline thickness that reads clearly at larger sizes.