Sans Other Fusa 9 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, branding, packaging, album covers, industrial, futuristic, playful, techno, assertive, high impact, distinct identity, stencil styling, display focus, retro-futurism, stencil cuts, rounded corners, blocky, geometric, compact apertures.
A heavy, geometric sans with broad proportions and strongly simplified construction. Letterforms are built from chunky, near-monolinear strokes with rounded outer curves and squared-off joins, producing a dense, poster-like texture. Distinctive stencil-like cutouts and slits appear across many glyphs, breaking counters and crossbars into segmented shapes and adding a mechanical, fabricated feel. Bowls are large and soft-edged, apertures tend to be tight, and terminals are blunt, emphasizing mass and silhouette clarity over fine detail.
Best suited to display typography where the bold silhouettes and stencil cuts can be appreciated—posters, large headlines, logos and wordmarks, packaging callouts, and entertainment or music artwork. It can also work for short UI labels or signage when set large, but the internal cut details favor larger sizes over body text.
The overall tone is bold and manufactured, mixing a techno/industrial sensibility with a slightly playful, retro-futurist edge. The repeated internal cuts read like machining marks or signage stenciling, giving the face a distinctive, energetic voice that feels attention-seeking and graphic.
The design appears intended to deliver a distinctive, high-impact sans with stencil-like interruptions that differentiate it from standard geometric displays. Its emphasis on mass, simplified forms, and rhythmic internal cuts suggests a goal of creating a memorable, industrial-leaning voice for branding and headline use.
The stencil interruptions become more prominent at smaller sizes, where thin internal gaps can visually fill in, while at larger display sizes they read as intentional detailing and add rhythm. Numerals and capitals share the same chunky, segmented logic, keeping the set visually cohesive for headlines and short statements.