Outline Bufa 2 is a bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, game ui, logos, packaging, arcade, retro, playful, chunky, comic, retro styling, arcade aesthetic, display impact, digital feel, pixelated, outlined, blocky, chiseled, stepped.
A chunky, stepped display design built from squarish geometry and crisp right-angle turns. Letterforms are drawn as a hollow outline with a consistent stroke that creates a sticker-like contour, while interior counters stay open and angular. Edges are intentionally “pixel” or stair-stepped rather than smooth, and many joins are squared off with occasional notched corners. Proportions are compact and tall with large interior apertures for an outline face, and spacing feels even while glyph widths vary naturally across the alphabet.
Best suited for display settings where the outlined, pixel-stepped forms can read large and crisp—headlines, poster titles, game or app UI labels, badges, and logo wordmarks. It can also work for short packaging callouts or event graphics where a retro-tech voice is desired.
The overall tone reads retro-digital and game-like, with a playful, bold presence that recalls arcade UI, pixel art, and vintage computer graphics. The hollow construction keeps the texture lighter than a fully filled block font, giving it a punchy but approachable feel.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, arcade-inspired silhouette using stepped contours and an outlined build, balancing strong presence with lighter interior openness. Its consistent modular corners and hollow construction suggest a focus on retro digital styling and high-impact titling.
Diagonal strokes are simplified into stepped segments, and curved characters (like C, G, O, S) resolve into faceted corners, reinforcing a low-resolution, grid-built aesthetic. The outline thickness and squared terminals remain consistent across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals, supporting cohesive headlines and short bursts of text.