Sans Faceted Bufa 8 is a very bold, wide, low contrast, reverse italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logotypes, game ui, album covers, aggressive, futuristic, industrial, arcade, techno, impact, sci‑fi branding, display texture, motion, angular, faceted, blocky, slanted, chiseled.
A heavy, angular display sans built from sharp planar cuts rather than curves. Strokes are uniformly thick with crisp corners and frequent chamfered terminals that create a faceted, chiseled silhouette. The letterforms lean backward, and their geometry favors rectangular bowls and straight-sided counters, giving the alphabet a compact, mechanical rhythm. Lowercase follows the same constructed logic as the uppercase, with squared-off apertures and simplified joins; numerals are similarly blocky and schematic.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as headlines, posters, logos, game titles/UI, and entertainment packaging where the faceted shapes can read as intentional texture. It performs strongest at medium-to-large sizes; dense text blocks may feel busy due to the tight counters and angular notches.
The overall tone feels hard-edged and kinetic, evoking sci‑fi interfaces, arcade hardware, and industrial labeling. Its backward slant and faceted cuts add tension and motion, while the dense black shapes communicate impact and urgency.
The design appears intended to deliver a high-energy, constructed look by replacing curves with beveled planes and by adding a reverse slant to imply speed and attitude. It prioritizes visual punch and a techno-industrial voice over neutral body-text readability.
Counters are tight and often rectangular, and several glyphs rely on notches and stepped cuts to suggest diagonals, which increases texture at larger sizes. The reverse slant and strong facet pattern are consistent across caps, lowercase, and figures, producing a distinctly constructed, digital-meets-machined personality.