Sans Other Gima 1 is a very bold, wide, low contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, branding, packaging, stickers, playful, chunky, cartoonish, friendly, retro, impact, approachability, novelty, display, retro feel, rounded, bulky, soft corners, compact apertures, notched details.
A heavy, blocky sans with broad proportions and softly rounded geometry. Strokes are monolinear and built from simple, inflated shapes with squared sides and rounded corners, producing a poster-like silhouette. Counters are tight and often simplified (with small round inner shapes in letters like O/Q and figures like 8/9), and several glyphs show distinctive carved or notched cut-ins around joins and curves, adding a slightly hand-cut, quirky rhythm. The lowercase is compact with sturdy stems and a large presence, and numerals follow the same chunky, high-impact construction.
Best suited to display applications where impact and personality matter: posters, large headlines, logo lockups, playful brand identities, and packaging. It also works well for short promotional phrases, merch graphics, and social media titles where the chunky silhouettes can read cleanly.
The overall tone is bold and upbeat, with a playful, cartoon-leaning friendliness. Its simplified counters and soft-edged massing feel retro and informal, suggesting fun, punchy messaging rather than reserved editorial typography.
The font appears designed to deliver maximum visual weight with a friendly, stylized voice, using simplified counters and rounded block forms to stay approachable while still feeling loud and attention-grabbing.
The design’s character comes through in the recurring cut-in notches and small, dot-like counters, which create visual texture at display sizes. Because the forms are dense and the apertures are relatively closed, clarity benefits from generous sizing and spacing in longer lines.