Sans Faceted Hewa 5 is a regular weight, very narrow, low contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album covers, branding, headlines, logos, gothic, industrial, severe, techno, ritual, dramatic voice, compact impact, geometric sharpness, gothic revival, signage feel, angular, faceted, condensed, spiky, monolinear.
A tightly compressed, monolinear display face built from straight strokes and sharp planar corners, with near-total avoidance of true curves. Vertical stems dominate, while joins and terminals resolve into clipped, chamfered points that create a faceted silhouette throughout. Counters are narrow and often rectangular, with consistent stroke thickness and crisp, mechanical edges that keep the rhythm rigid and architectural across both capitals and lowercase.
Best suited to display settings where a compact, high-impact texture is desirable: posters, album/film titles, event promotion, and brand marks that lean gothic or industrial. It can also work for packaging or editorial headlines when used with generous tracking and ample line spacing to preserve clarity.
The overall tone is austere and gothic-adjacent, suggesting signage, metalwork, or carved lettering rather than handwriting. Its pointed facets and strict verticality read as intense, ceremonial, and slightly menacing, while the clean geometry also lends a contemporary industrial/tech flavor.
The design appears intended to deliver a dramatic, vertically driven voice using faceted geometry in place of curves, producing a hard-edged texture that feels carved and engineered. Its condensed build aims to maximize presence in limited horizontal space while maintaining a consistent, monolinear construction.
The narrow internal space and frequent pointed terminals make spacing and texture feel dense, especially in long strings. Numerals follow the same angular construction and condensed proportions, keeping the set visually unified for titling and short bursts of text.