Sans Superellipse Porin 5 is a very bold, very narrow, low contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, sports branding, packaging, signage, industrial, condensed, forceful, sporty, poster-like, space-saving, high impact, utilitarian, branding, tall, rectilinear, rounded corners, compact, monoline.
A tightly condensed, monoline sans with tall proportions and compact sidebearings. Curves resolve into rounded-rectangle forms, giving bowls and counters a squarish, superelliptical feel rather than true circles. Terminals are mostly flat and clean, with minimal modulation and sturdy vertical stems; joins stay crisp and controlled. Overall rhythm is dense and vertical, producing strong color and a tightly packed texture in text.
Best suited to display settings where space is tight and impact matters: headlines, posters, storefront or wayfinding signage, and packaging fronts. It can also work for sports and industrial branding systems that benefit from condensed, high-density typography, while extended paragraph text is less ideal due to the tight, vertical texture.
The font projects a blunt, high-impact tone—functional and assertive, with a slightly retro-industrial flavor. Its tall, compressed silhouettes and squared-round curves feel sporty and utilitarian, emphasizing urgency and punch over refinement.
The design appears intended to maximize visual impact and economy of width while keeping forms simple and robust. By combining a condensed skeleton with squared-rounded geometry and flat terminals, it aims for a modern, utilitarian voice that reproduces strongly at large sizes.
The condensed structure makes letterforms stack closely, creating strong headline presence but a potentially busy texture in longer lines. The superelliptical construction is especially evident in rounded letters and numerals, which read as rounded rectangles, reinforcing a mechanical, engineered character.