Sans Other Balel 6 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, signage, branding, industrial, technical, retro, utilitarian, mechanical, compact display, industrial labeling, technical tone, retro modernism, squared, condensed, stencil-like, monolinear, angular.
A condensed, squared sans with monolinear strokes and tightly controlled geometry. Corners are predominantly right-angled with softened, slightly rounded joins, producing a boxy rhythm across caps, lowercase, and numerals. Many counters are rectangular or squarish (notably in O, D, P, 0), and curves are minimized into straight segments with clipped terminals. Overall spacing reads compact with a tall, narrow silhouette and a consistent, engineered construction.
Works best for short to medium-length text where a compact, engineered look is desired: headlines, labels, packaging, signage, and brand marks. It can also suit UI or display settings that aim for a technical or industrial voice, especially where vertical space is limited and a condensed footprint helps.
The overall tone feels industrial and technical, with a retro machine-label sensibility. Its rigid geometry and condensed proportions convey efficiency and control, leaning more utilitarian than friendly or expressive.
The design appears intended to translate industrial, rectilinear lettering into a clean digital sans: compact, consistent, and highly recognizable. The squared counters and clipped terminals prioritize a mechanical aesthetic while keeping letterforms structured enough for display readability.
Distinctive glyph traits include the squared bowls and counters, the angular diagonals in V/W/X/Y, and the simplified, sign-like numeral forms. The lowercase maintains the same squared logic as the uppercase, giving text a cohesive, mechanical texture that stays legible but noticeably stylized.