Sans Other Esfu 3 is a very bold, very wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, game ui, album covers, industrial, arcade, techno, brutalist, cyber, impact, tech aesthetic, industrial tone, retro digital, blocky, geometric, angular, stencil-like, compact counters.
A heavy, geometric sans with squared proportions, sharp chamfered corners, and a largely rectilinear construction. Strokes are consistently thick with crisp, orthogonal joins and occasional diagonal cuts that create a machined, faceted feel. Counters are tight and often rectangular, with several letters using vertical slit-like apertures; spacing reads sturdy and compact, while widths vary noticeably across glyphs. The overall silhouette is dominated by block forms and hard edges, producing strong shape clarity at display sizes.
Best suited to display typography where its chunky geometry can read cleanly—posters, headlines, branding marks, packaging, and entertainment contexts like game menus or UI labels. It can also work for short, high-contrast callouts on signage or in tech-themed graphics, but dense paragraphs may feel cramped due to tight counters.
The font projects a utilitarian, mechanical tone with a distinctly retro-digital edge. Its angular cuts and boxed-in counters evoke arcade interfaces, industrial signage, and sci‑fi UI graphics, giving text a forceful, assertive presence.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a rigid, engineered voice—prioritizing bold silhouettes, modular construction, and a futuristic/industrial texture appropriate for attention-grabbing display settings.
Several glyphs lean on cut-in notches and stepped terminals rather than smooth curves, which increases the sense of constructed geometry. The design favors impactful silhouettes over open interior space, so legibility improves with generous size and breathing room.