Samson BoldOblique, by Meir Sadan of Oketz Fonts, is a free techno display font with a hard-edged, forward-leaning rhythm that feels cut from fast-moving machinery. The letters are built from sharp corners, chopped joins, and narrow vertical cuts, giving the whole font a compressed, mechanical pulse with a distinctly turn-of-the-millennium digital mood.
It fits naturally into game logos, club flyers, sci-fi packaging, poster headlines, and title cards where a free font with this much angular momentum can carry the whole line. Because the shapes lock together in a tight, slanted cadence, it also works well for short cover lines and branded wordmarks that need motion without switching to full-on distortion.
This is actually the English version of a Hebrew font that's gonna be released in my upcoming hebrew site, oketz.com. I really like it, it's all buff 'n' stuff.
Samson's that big, strong guy from the bible. There's a story there about how he beat an entire army with a donkey's cheek. In my opinion, they've gone a little kooky at that point, but who am I to say something.
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
Font details
Created2004-03-09
Revision2
Glyph count98
Units per Em800
Embedding rightsEmbedding for preview & printing allowed
Family classNo classification
WeightBold
WidthExpanded
Width typeNormal
Mac styleItalic
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Italic angle-11
Pattern natureItalic
StyleUpright
Stroke weightExtra Black
PitchNot monospaced
Symbol setWindows 3.1 ANSI
Complete pack contains 6 font weights listed below: