Sans Contrasted Kywy 9 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, italic, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, branding, packaging, editorial, retro, kinetic, quirky, playful, attention, movement, stylization, display impact, graphic texture, slanted, condensed, angular, cut-in, notched.
A condensed, right-slanted sans with sharp, cut-in terminals and dramatic thick–thin contrast. Strokes alternate between sturdy black wedges and hairline connectors, creating a chiseled, segmented look across many letters. Rounds are compact and vertical, while diagonals and joins feel tense and angular, giving the alphabet a lively, flickering rhythm. Numerals follow the same logic, mixing bold blocks with thin links for a distinctly graphic silhouette.
Best suited to display typography such as headlines, posters, branding marks, packaging, and editorial openers where its angular cuts and contrast can act as a graphic feature. It can also work for short bursts of text—taglines, pull quotes, or interface accents—when set large enough to preserve the hairline details.
The overall tone is energetic and slightly mischievous, with a vintage display flavor that feels fast, loud, and attention-seeking. Its broken, high-contrast construction reads like stylized motion or light slicing through forms, lending a theatrical, poster-ready personality.
The font appears designed to deliver a striking, modernized-retro italic voice by combining condensed proportions with carved, segmented strokes. Its intention seems less about neutrality and more about creating a distinctive texture and motion in words, turning letterforms into bold graphic shapes.
The design leans on strong vertical emphasis and deliberate interruptions in stroke flow, so counters and apertures stay recognizable even as parts of the letterforms are reduced to thin filaments. Spacing appears tight by nature of the condensed forms, and the most distinctive character comes through at medium to large sizes where the notches and hairlines remain crisp.