Sans Faceted Urwy 4 is a very bold, very wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
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A heavy, geometric sans built from sharp planar cuts rather than true curves. Strokes are monolinear and squared-off, with frequent chamfered corners and octagonal bowls that create a machined, faceted silhouette. Counters tend to be rectangular or clipped, and apertures are tight, producing compact interior space and strong figure/ground contrast. The design keeps a consistent modular rhythm across capitals, lowercase, and numerals, with occasional stencil-like breaks and notches that reinforce the engineered look.
This font is well suited to display typography such as posters, packaging titles, esports or gaming graphics, and sci‑fi themed interfaces where a bold, mechanical texture is desirable. It can work for short blocks of text in controlled settings, but its tight counters and dense shapes make it more effective for headings and emphasis than for long-form reading.
The overall tone feels futuristic and industrial, with an assertive, game/tech display energy. The crisp facets and blunt terminals suggest speed, machinery, and hard surfaces, lending the face a confident, slightly aggressive voice.
The letterforms appear designed to translate a geometric sans into a faceted, machined aesthetic, prioritizing strong silhouettes and a consistent angular construction over smooth curves. The goal seems to be high visual impact and a distinctive, technology-forward texture in display sizes.
Several letters emphasize horizontals and strong corner geometry (e.g., squared bowls and clipped diagonals), which makes the font read best when allowed enough tracking and size. The lowercase shares the same hard-edged construction as the capitals, keeping the texture uniform in mixed-case settings.