Sans Superellipse Irso 5 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, sports branding, packaging, industrial, retro, techno, arcade, punchy, impact, signage, retro tech, modular geometry, brand punch, blocky, squarish, rounded, compressed counters, stencil-like.
A compact, block-built display sans with rounded-rectangle construction and heavily filled interior space. Corners are consistently softened, producing a superelliptical silhouette, while counters and apertures are narrow and often rectangular, giving letters a carved, notched feel. Strokes are thick and fairly even, with minimal modulation; horizontals and verticals dominate and diagonals are used sparingly and kept stout. The lowercase maintains a tall, sturdy structure with short extenders, and many forms read as modular shapes with crisp cut-ins rather than open curves.
Best suited to large-scale display settings where its mass and sculpted counters can be appreciated—posters, headlines, wordmarks, and branding that needs a tough, mechanical presence. It also fits packaging and entertainment contexts (arcade, sci‑fi, action) where a compact, high-impact voice helps carry the design.
The overall tone is bold and assertive, with a distinctly retro-industrial and arcade-like energy. Its chunky geometry and tight counters evoke machinery, signage, and early digital or game-era aesthetics, projecting confidence and impact more than subtlety.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum visual weight with a modular, rounded-rectangle vocabulary, balancing soft outer corners against sharp internal cut-ins for a stamped or engineered look. It prioritizes bold recognizability and graphic rhythm over open, text-oriented clarity.
The glyphs show a consistent system of rounded outer corners paired with squared internal cutouts, creating strong figure/ground patterns at larger sizes. Spacing in the sample text appears generous enough to keep the dense black shapes from clumping, but the tight apertures suggest readability will drop quickly at small sizes.