Sans Superellipse Abkub 5 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: ui labels, signage, posters, logos, packaging, techy, retro, precise, clean, geometric, geometric clarity, tech identity, space efficiency, systematic design, rounded corners, boxy rounds, monolinear, angular joins, open counters.
A geometric sans built from straight stems and rounded-rectangle curves, giving many letters a squared-off, superellipse-like silhouette. Strokes are largely monolinear with crisp terminals and frequent chamfered or angled joins, creating a slightly mechanical rhythm. Rounded forms such as C, G, O, and Q feel more boxy than circular, while diagonals in A, K, V, W, X, and Y stay taut and narrow. The lowercase continues the same geometry with compact bowls and short extenders, and the numerals follow a similarly streamlined, constructed logic.
This font is well suited to display and short-to-medium text where a crisp, geometric voice is desired—such as UI labels, wayfinding and signage, brand marks, posters, and product packaging. Its compact, narrow build can help fit longer strings into limited horizontal space while maintaining a strong, graphic identity.
The overall tone reads modern and engineered, with a subtle retro-digital flavor from the rounded-rect curves and clipped details. It feels efficient and utilitarian, leaning toward a tech interface or industrial signage mood rather than a warm humanist voice.
The design appears intended to merge geometric clarity with rounded-rectangle forms, creating a distinctive superellipse-driven sans that stays readable while signaling a contemporary, technical character. The consistent construction and corner logic suggest an aim for a cohesive, system-like typographic palette for branding and interface contexts.
Many characters show deliberate, consistent corner treatments—rounded on curves but often sharpened or chamfered where strokes meet—producing a distinctive constructed texture in words. The punctuation and dots appear clean and simple, supporting the font’s functional, graphic presence.