Sans Superellipse Irga 5 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, packaging, app titles, playful, retro, chunky, friendly, punchy, high impact, graphic texture, distinctive branding, retro display, stencil effect, rounded, soft corners, stencil cuts, geometric, compact counters.
A heavy, rounded sans built from broad, squarish curves and softened corners. The letterforms are wide and compact, with large blocks of black and relatively small internal counters. Many glyphs incorporate consistent vertical stencil-like breaks, giving the shapes a segmented, modular rhythm while keeping strokes uniform and edges smoothly radiused. Terminals are blunt and rounded rather than tapered, and the overall silhouette favors superelliptical bowls and rounded-rectangle stems for a dense, poster-ready texture.
Best suited to large-scale display work such as posters, headlines, packaging, and brand marks where its chunky geometry and stencil breaks can be appreciated. It can also work for short UI labels or app titles when used sparingly, but longer passages will appear dark and highly stylized. It pairs well with simple, neutral text faces that can carry body copy.
The overall tone is bold and buoyant, with a toy-like, mid-century display energy. The repeated breaks add a graphic, industrial stencil flavor that feels sporty and attention-seeking rather than formal. It reads as confident and fun, with a slightly quirky, constructed personality.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum presence with a soft, geometric voice, combining rounded-rectangle construction with deliberate stencil segmentation for instant recognizability. Its proportions and dense color suggest a focus on impactful titling and identity use rather than neutral reading.
In running text the dense forms create strong word shapes, and the internal cuts become a distinctive pattern that can dominate at smaller sizes. Numerals share the same rounded, segmented construction, keeping the set visually consistent for headlines and branding. The design’s impact increases with generous tracking and plenty of surrounding whitespace.