Sans Other Jiku 2 is a bold, wide, low contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, gaming, sci-fi ui, sports branding, futuristic, techno, industrial, aggressive, tactical, sci-fi styling, industrial feel, speed emphasis, interface look, branding impact, angular, chiseled, stenciled, segmented, square-cut.
A sharply slanted, geometric sans built from angular, cut-out strokes with frequent breaks and notched terminals. Curves are largely replaced by chamfered corners, giving bowls and rounds a faceted, almost octagonal feel. Many letters use stencil-like segmentation (notably in shapes such as E, S, and numerals), creating internal gaps and a rhythmic pattern of rectangular counters. The overall silhouette is blocky and forward-leaning, with compact apertures, squared punctuation-like nicks, and a consistently engineered stroke treatment across the set.
Best suited to display applications where its angular segmentation can read as a feature: headlines, posters, esports or gaming graphics, sci‑fi or cyber-themed UI mockups, and high-impact branding moments. It can work for short subheads or labels, but extended paragraphs will emphasize the stencil breaks and produce a busy texture.
The font projects a fast, mechanized tone—part sci‑fi interface, part industrial marking. Its slanted, segmented construction suggests motion and urgency, while the hard corners and cut-ins add a tactical, equipment-like flavor. The result feels contemporary and synthetic rather than friendly or neutral.
The design appears intended to translate a techno-industrial aesthetic into a compact, high-impact italicized sans, using deliberate cutouts and chamfered geometry to evoke machinery, speed, and futuristic signage.
The broken strokes and tight apertures create a distinctive texture that becomes more pronounced in longer passages, where the repeated notches form a patterned cadence. Letterforms remain legible at display sizes, but the segmentation and oblique angle make the texture feel dense as lines of text stack.