Sans Contrasted Firo 2 is a very bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, logos, signage, industrial, condensed, retro, assertive, mechanical, impact, space saving, texture, display, blocky, rounded corners, ink traps, stencil-like, high impact.
A compact, heavy display sans with tall lowercase proportions and tightly packed counters. Strokes are largely monolinear in feel but show subtle thick–thin shifts created by tapered joins and narrow interior cutouts. The forms are built from squared shapes with softened, rounded corners, and many letters feature vertical slits or notches that read like ink traps or stencil-style breaks. Curves (C, O, S) are squarish and boxed-in, while terminals are blunt and flat, producing a rigid, compressed rhythm with strong vertical emphasis.
Best suited for high-impact headlines, poster typography, branding marks, and packaging where a dense, condensed wordshape is desirable. It can also work for signage-style applications and short labels where strong presence and compact width matter more than long-form readability.
The overall tone is bold and industrial, with a utilitarian, machine-made character. The internal cutouts add a slightly rugged, poster-ready edge that can feel retro or sci‑fi depending on context, while the condensed stance keeps the voice urgent and attention-seeking.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum visual weight in a compressed footprint while maintaining differentiation through internal cutouts and softened corners. Its constructed geometry and notched detailing suggest a focus on display use—creating a bold, industrial voice that remains visually distinctive in large settings.
Distinctive interior apertures and narrow counters increase texture and help separate dense black shapes at large sizes, but they also create a busy interior pattern in longer lines. Numerals follow the same blocky construction and read as signage-oriented figures, with tight openings and squared silhouettes.