Sans Other Redeg 12 is a very bold, narrow, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, album art, gothic, hand-cut, retro, playful, posterish, handcrafted feel, dramatic impact, retro display, gothic flavor, high visibility, angular, chiseled, faceted, irregular, blocky.
A heavy, condensed display face built from chunky, faceted shapes with sharply cut corners and subtly uneven contours. Strokes keep a consistent thickness, while terminals and joins are defined by abrupt angles rather than smooth curves, giving many letters a carved or clipped silhouette. The rhythm feels intentionally irregular: widths and internal counters vary from glyph to glyph, and rounded forms like O and 0 read as angular, almost octagonal shapes. Lowercase is compact and sturdy, with simplified bowls and short, squared-off details that prioritize impact over refinement.
This design is well suited for posters, headlines, and short branding phrases where a distinctive, high-impact texture is desired. It can work effectively for logos, packaging, labels, and entertainment-oriented graphics (music, games, events) that benefit from a gothic or hand-crafted edge. For longer reading, it’s best used sparingly as an accent type.
The overall tone is bold and theatrical, evoking a blackletter-adjacent, “gothic poster” attitude without fully adopting traditional fraktur details. Its jagged, cut-paper energy also lends a playful, slightly mischievous feel that can read as retro, spooky, or punk depending on color and layout. The strong silhouettes make it attention-grabbing and assertive.
The letterforms suggest an intention to capture a carved, hand-made look—like shapes cut from paper or hewn from wood—while keeping the construction bold and compact for strong visibility. The deliberate irregularities and faceted curves aim to inject personality and motion into otherwise simple sans structures.
The font relies on silhouette and negative space more than interior detail, so it holds up best at larger sizes. Numerals mirror the same faceted construction, and the ampersand in the sample maintains the angular, hand-cut character. Spacing appears comfortable for headlines, but the irregular forms can create a lively, uneven texture in long lines of text.