Sans Faceted Etwa 4 is a bold, wide, monoline, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, logotypes, sports branding, gaming ui, posters, futuristic, technical, sporty, assertive, dynamic, signal speed, add edge, look engineered, modernize tone, angular, faceted, octagonal, chamfered, oblique.
A sharply angled sans with planar, faceted construction in place of smooth curves. Counters and bowls tend toward octagonal forms with clipped corners, producing a consistent chamfered rhythm across capitals, lowercase, and numerals. Strokes maintain an even weight while the oblique slant and squared terminals create a fast, mechanical texture; spacing is moderately tight, and the overall silhouette reads clean and deliberate at display sizes.
Best suited to headlines, branding, and short bursts of text where the angular detailing can be appreciated. It also fits esports, automotive/tech identities, product labels, and UI accents where a crisp, engineered look supports a sense of speed and precision.
The face conveys a forward-leaning, high-tech energy—confident and engineered rather than friendly. Its crisp corners and streamlined shapes suggest speed and precision, giving it a sporty, tactical tone suited to modern, performance-oriented branding.
The design appears intended to translate a geometric, faceted aesthetic into a practical sans that stays legible while projecting a technical, performance-driven character. Its consistent corner treatment and oblique stance aim to create a cohesive, modern voice for display-led typography.
Distinctive faceting is especially noticeable in rounded characters and digits, where corners are cut rather than softened, keeping the texture uniform in both headings and short text. The slanted forms and geometric joins create strong diagonals, which helps the font feel energetic but can make dense paragraphs feel intense if set too tightly.