Sans Faceted Abrus 4 is a bold, narrow, low contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, album covers, game titles, gothic, medieval, heavy, aggressive, industrial, dramatic display, historical tone, geometric stylization, high impact, angular, faceted, octagonal, stencil-like, compact.
This typeface is built from sharp, planar strokes where curves are replaced by chamfered corners and clipped terminals, creating an octagonal, faceted silhouette throughout. Stems are thick and blocky with minimal modulation, and counters tend to be small and geometric. The lowercase reads as a compact, stylized companion to the uppercase rather than a separate text model, with pointed joins, short extenders, and simplified bowls. Overall spacing feels tight and the rhythm is dense, producing strong, graphic word shapes that hold together at larger sizes.
Best suited to display applications where its dense texture and faceted construction can be appreciated—posters, headlines, packaging accents, title cards, and logo work. It can also fit fantasy, metal, or medieval-themed branding and interface titling, especially when set with generous size and careful tracking.
The letterforms evoke a carved, armored, or forged sensibility—assertive and ceremonial with a distinctly gothic/blackletter-adjacent tone rendered in a modern, geometric way. Its sharp edges and compact texture suggest intensity and tradition, lending a dramatic, poster-forward voice rather than a quiet, editorial one.
The design appears intended to translate blackletter-era severity into a simplified, geometric display style: strong silhouettes, chiseled corners, and compact proportions that prioritize impact and thematic character over long-form readability.
Several glyphs emphasize notched or tapered terminals and faceted interior corners, giving the font a consistent cut-metal or stone-cut impression. Numerals follow the same polygonal logic, with angular bowls and clipped diagonals that keep the set visually cohesive.