Sans Superellipse Irby 1 is a very bold, very wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, sports branding, apparel, gaming ui, industrial, sporty, techy, assertive, playful, maximum impact, modern geometry, rugged display, brand presence, screen titles, rounded corners, blocky, squared, compact counters, high impact.
A heavy, block-driven sans with broad proportions and a rounded-rectangle construction. Strokes are uniform and thick, with softened corners and frequent chamfer-like cuts that create a machined, stencil-adjacent feel without actual breaks in the forms. Counters are small and often squared or rectangular, and joins are tight, producing dense, punchy silhouettes. The lowercase maintains a tall presence with minimal modulation, while figures and capitals share the same squared, sturdy geometry for a consistent, poster-ready rhythm.
Best suited to large-size applications where its thick strokes and compact counters can deliver maximum impact—headlines, posters, packaging, sports identities, and bold wayfinding. It also fits screen-forward contexts like gaming or tech UI titles, badges, and logo marks where a strong, geometric voice is needed.
The overall tone is bold and forceful, combining a utilitarian, engineered character with a slightly playful, arcade-like chunkiness. Its rounded corners keep it from feeling harsh, but the compact counters and slabby shapes still read as commanding and energetic.
This design appears intended to deliver a highly legible, high-impact display voice built from rounded-rectangular geometry, balancing toughness with friendly corners. The angular cuts and tight counters suggest an emphasis on an engineered, contemporary look that holds up in branding and attention-grabbing typography.
Text set in longer lines stays coherent but quickly becomes visually dense because of the tight interior spaces and high stroke coverage. The most distinctive signatures are the rounded-rectangle bowls (notably in O/Q/0) and the angular notches and diagonally cut terminals that add motion and a rugged, fabricated texture.