Sans Faceted Liny 4 is a regular weight, wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height, monospaced font.
Keywords: headlines, logotypes, posters, game ui, packaging, techno, industrial, futuristic, arcade, mechanical, digital aesthetic, modular system, display impact, industrial tone, angular, faceted, octagonal, geometric, modular.
A geometric, faceted sans with straight stems and clipped corners that substitute for curves, producing an octagonal, chiseled silhouette throughout. Strokes remain even and sturdy, with frequent 45° cuts on terminals and joins, and a consistent modular rhythm across capitals, lowercase, and figures. Counters tend to be squared-off or polygonal (notably in O/0 and rounded letters like e), while diagonals in A, V, W, and Y keep a crisp, engineered feel. The overall spacing and alignment read like a grid-based construction, reinforcing its systematic, technical appearance.
Best suited to display sizes where the faceting can be appreciated—headlines, logos, posters, game/interface graphics, and product or tech-themed packaging. It can also work for short labels and captions when a structured, digital-industrial tone is desired, though the strong angular texture may feel busy in long passages.
The font conveys a retro-digital, machine-made character—cool, precise, and slightly aggressive due to its sharp facets and hard stops. It evokes sci‑fi interfaces, arcade-era display lettering, and industrial labeling, balancing playfulness with an engineered, utilitarian edge.
The design appears intended to translate a grid-and-chamfer construction into a usable alphabet, replacing curves with planar cuts for a consistent, fabricated look. Its emphasis on uniform geometry and repeatable corner logic suggests a goal of creating a distinctive techno display face that remains systematic and legible across the full alphanumeric set.
Distinctive polygonal bowls and chamfered terminals create strong texture in running text, with punctuation and dots rendered as sharp, diamond-like marks. The numerals echo the same faceted logic (e.g., angular 0 and segmented 2/3 forms), helping maintain a cohesive, systematized voice across alphanumerics.