Sans Faceted Lame 5 is a regular weight, normal width, low contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, packaging, titles, industrial, retro, game-like, mechanical, techno, geometric styling, tech mood, signage feel, retro display, angular, faceted, octagonal, chamfered, geometric.
This typeface is built from straight strokes and clipped corners, replacing curves with crisp facets and octagonal counters. Strokes are mostly monolinear, with a slightly stencil-like feel created by small notches and corner cuts throughout. The rhythm is square and modular, with compact bowls, tight apertures, and a generally rigid, engineered geometry that stays consistent across uppercase, lowercase, and figures.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings such as headlines, title cards, logos, and packaging where its faceted construction can be appreciated. It can also work for UI labels or thematic graphics when a retro-tech or industrial mood is desired, while longer text will emphasize its textured, notched details.
The overall tone is mechanical and utilitarian, evoking industrial signage, digital-era hardware, and retro arcade or sci‑fi interfaces. Its sharp facets and hard edges give it a purposeful, no-nonsense voice with a nostalgic tech flavor.
The design appears intended to translate a geometric, machine-cut aesthetic into a coherent text face, using chamfered corners and planar facets to suggest precision and hardware-like construction. Consistent angular logic across letters and numerals prioritizes a strong, recognizable silhouette for display-oriented typography.
Uppercase forms read blocky and emblematic, while the lowercase preserves the same faceted construction, producing distinctive text color and noticeable texture in paragraphs. Numerals are similarly angular and display-forward, with strong silhouettes and closed, polygonal counters that reinforce the techno-industrial character.