Sans Faceted Orlu 11 is a regular weight, normal width, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font visually similar to 'Tradesman' by Grype (names referenced only for comparison).
Keywords: display, headlines, branding, posters, signage, techno, industrial, futuristic, retro, geometric styling, tech aesthetic, display impact, system consistency, angular, geometric, chamfered, octagonal, hard-edged.
A geometric sans built from straight strokes and clipped corners, replacing curves with crisp planar facets. Counters tend toward octagonal/rectilinear shapes, and terminals are consistently chamfered, creating a uniform hard-edge rhythm across the alphabet. Strokes are even and monolinear, with generous interior space in letters like O, D, and P, while diagonals (K, V, W, X) stay clean and mechanical. Numerals follow the same faceted construction, with squared bowls and angled joins that keep figures legible and structurally consistent.
Best suited for display typography where its faceted construction can be appreciated—headlines, titles, posters, and brand marks with a technical or industrial voice. It also fits wayfinding or product labeling when you want a crisp, engineered look, and it works well for interface-styled graphics and sci‑fi themed visual systems.
The overall tone is technical and machine-made, evoking digital readouts, engineered signage, and sci‑fi interfaces. Its sharp geometry and repeated corner cuts introduce a retro-futurist flavor—precise, utilitarian, and slightly game/arcade coded rather than soft or humanist.
The design appears intended to translate a sans-serif skeleton into an all-straight, corner-cut geometry, emphasizing consistency and a fabricated, schematic aesthetic. By standardizing chamfers and angular counters, it aims to deliver a distinctive techno voice while staying readable across mixed-case text and numerals.
The font’s character comes from the repeated chamfer motif: it unifies curved glyphs, diagonals, and joints into a single faceted system. In text, the consistent angles create a steady, grid-like cadence that reads cleanly at display sizes and maintains a distinctly constructed feel.