Sans Other Hiwo 9 is a very bold, wide, monoline, reverse italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, game ui, logos, sports branding, futuristic, industrial, arcade, tactical, aggressive, impact, sci-fi feel, mechanical edge, attention grabbing, angular, blocky, faceted, techno, stenciled.
A heavy, angular display sans built from chunky, faceted strokes and sharp corner breaks. Letterforms lean backward with a consistent slant, and many joints are cut with chamfered wedges that create a carved, mechanical rhythm. Counters are small and often polygonal, with occasional stencil-like separations and triangular notches that emphasize a segmented construction. The overall texture is dense and high-contrast in silhouette, with tight interior space and strongly geometric proportions across caps, lowercase, and numerals.
Best suited to large sizes where its angular cuts and compact counters can be read clearly—titles, posters, esports or sports branding, game/arcade interfaces, and punchy logo wordmarks. It can also work for short callouts or packaging where a hard-edged, techno tone is desirable, but is less suited to long-form text due to its dense, highly stylized shapes.
The font reads as assertive and high-energy, with a sci‑fi/techno edge and a slightly militaristic, industrial feel. Its back-leaning stance and jagged cuts add motion and tension, lending a game-like, arcade display character that feels bold and confrontational.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, futuristic display voice using faceted geometry and stencil-like segmentation, prioritizing impact, motion, and a mechanical aesthetic over quiet readability.
Distinctive diagonal terminals and wedge-shaped cut-ins create strong letter-to-letter variation, so word shapes are visually spiky and attention-grabbing. The digit set matches the same faceted logic and appears optimized for impact rather than neutrality, with compact counters and pronounced angles.