Serif Other Ufbu 4 is a regular weight, narrow, low contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, packaging, logotypes, industrial, retro, technical, stoic, authoritative, compact impact, industrial styling, retro display, technical clarity, squared, condensed, tall, geometric, cornered.
A condensed display serif with tall proportions, blunt terminals, and consistently squared curves. Strokes stay largely uniform, with subtle bracketing where stems meet and small, controlled serifs that read as clipped wedges or short feet rather than long flares. Counters are compact and often rectangularized (notably in O, D, and 0), giving the design a machined, signage-like rhythm. The lowercase keeps the same tight, vertical logic, with a compact bowl construction and a clean, minimal treatment of joins and apertures.
Best suited to display sizes where its condensed width and squared counters can read clearly: headlines, posters, and branding marks that benefit from a firm, industrial tone. It also works well for signage and packaging that needs a compact, high-impact word shape in limited horizontal space.
The overall tone feels engineered and utilitarian—more mechanical than literary—while still carrying a vintage, institutional flavor reminiscent of stenciled or cast lettering. Its narrow stance and squared detailing project firmness and restraint, making the voice feel official, controlled, and slightly retro-futurist.
The design appears intended to deliver a compact, attention-holding serif with a machined, geometric construction—combining traditional serif cues with squared, industrial forms for a distinctive, practical display voice.
Round characters are deliberately squarish, and diagonals (V, W, X, Y) are crisp and steep, reinforcing the technical character. Numerals follow the same boxy logic, with a distinctive slashed zero that improves differentiation in code- and data-adjacent settings. The punctuation shown is straightforward and functional, matching the tight fit and vertical emphasis of the alphabet.