Sans Other Havi 2 is a very bold, very wide, low contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, branding, packaging, brutalist, industrial, modular, retro-futurist, stencil-like, display impact, graphic texture, tech flavor, signage feel, rounded corners, cut-in terminals, segmented forms, blocky, geometric.
A heavy, block-built sans with broad proportions and rounded rectangle geometry. Strokes are monolinear and end in softly radiused corners, while many glyphs are defined by deliberate internal cut-ins and notches that create segmented counters and split bowls. The construction feels modular and mechanical, with frequent vertical emphasis, squared curves, and occasional diagonal slices that add snap to forms like S and Z. Spacing appears robust and the silhouettes stay compact and dense, prioritizing shape impact over fine detail.
Best suited to display settings where its mass and segmented construction can be appreciated—posters, bold editorial headlines, album or event graphics, branding marks, and packaging. It can also work for short UI labels or signage when ample size and contrast are available, but the intricate cut-ins are likely to be more effective in larger applications than in long small-size reading.
The overall tone is unapologetically bold and engineered—evoking industrial signage, stamped markings, and retro-futurist display typography. The repeated breaks and apertures add a coded, techy flavor, giving the text a rugged, utilitarian personality that reads as designed rather than purely functional.
The design appears intended to merge a straightforward sans skeleton with a modular, stencil-adjacent disruption—using consistent notches and split bowls to create a memorable, engineered voice. It prioritizes graphic identity and texture, turning familiar letterforms into bold, system-like shapes.
The distinctive cutouts create strong texture in paragraphs, producing a rhythm of alternating solid mass and small voids. Numerals follow the same segmented logic, helping maintain consistency across alphanumerics. At smaller sizes the internal notches may visually close up, while at large sizes they become a defining graphic feature.