Sans Contrasted Kime 8 is a bold, wide, very high contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logotypes, ui titles, game art, futuristic, techno, sci-fi, industrial, arcade, display impact, tech aesthetic, modular system, graphic texture, geometric, octagonal, stencil-like, angular, monoline details.
A geometric, angular sans with chamfered corners and a modular construction. Forms are built from heavy horizontal slabs paired with extremely thin vertical stems, creating a strong top-and-bottom emphasis and crisp negative bands through many letters. Counters tend toward squared or octagonal shapes, and several glyphs use open joins and discontinuous strokes that read as stencil-like cut-ins rather than continuous curves. The lowercase mirrors the caps closely, with a tall x-height and compact apertures; numerals follow the same segmented logic, including a distinctly diagonal Z-like “2” and a squared “0” with internal cut detail.
Best suited to display roles where its banded structure and angular silhouettes can read clearly—headlines, posters, packaging accents, and logotypes for technology or entertainment contexts. It also works well for UI titles, game branding, and sci-fi themed graphics where a mechanical, segmented voice is desirable.
The overall tone feels futuristic and engineered, with a digital/arcade flavor driven by the segmented strokes and hard chamfers. Its sharp rhythm and high-contrast striping suggest machinery, interfaces, and retro-tech display aesthetics more than humanist warmth.
The design appears intended to blend a strong, blocky presence with a lightweight, technical skeleton, using cut-ins and chamfers to evoke segmented display lettering. Its consistent modular rules prioritize graphic impact and a distinctive futuristic texture in short phrases and branding.
Horizontal bars and internal gaps become a defining graphic motif, so texture can look banded in longer lines of text. The thinnest verticals contribute a delicate, wiry edge that increases the sense of precision but can visually soften at small sizes or on low-contrast backgrounds.