Sans Superellipse Iply 5 is a very bold, wide, high contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: sports branding, team logos, posters, headlines, apparel, sporty, urgent, aggressive, retro, action, impact, speed, athletic, headline, branding, condensed slant, rounded corners, ink-trap cuts, blocky, tight apertures.
A heavy, right-slanted sans with compact, squared-off counters and strongly rounded outer corners, giving the letterforms a superellipse/rounded-rectangle construction. Strokes are thick and decisive with sharp internal notches and small cut-ins that read like ink-traps or speed cuts, especially visible in joins and crossbars. The rhythm is tight and forward-leaning, with relatively closed apertures and short terminals that keep silhouettes dense and punchy. Numerals and capitals maintain the same blocky geometry and consistent corner rounding, producing a cohesive, engineered look.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as sports branding, team or event marks, poster headlines, and promotional graphics where bold silhouettes and motion cues are desirable. It also works well on apparel, packaging callouts, and gaming or action-themed interfaces when set at larger sizes with generous tracking.
The overall tone is fast, forceful, and competitive, with a distinct sports and action-title energy. The combination of slant, dense shapes, and sharp interior cuts suggests motion and intensity, while the rounded corners keep it from feeling harshly industrial. It also carries a mild retro display feel reminiscent of late-20th-century athletic branding and arcade-era titling.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact and a sense of speed through a pronounced slant, dense block forms, and purposeful interior cut-ins. The rounded-rectangle construction keeps the forms modern and cohesive while maintaining a display-first attitude aimed at branding and headline use.
In text, the dense shapes and narrow openings can reduce legibility at smaller sizes, but the strong silhouettes hold up well at display sizes. The punctuation and figures match the same compact, cut-in detailing, helping headlines feel consistently styled rather than mixed from unrelated shapes.