Sans Superellipse Elri 8 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, branding, packaging, signage, retro-futurist, industrial, technical, arcade, sci-fi, tech aesthetic, space-age, compact display, signage clarity, condensed, rounded corners, rectilinear, monolinear, high-waisted.
A condensed, monolinear sans with a tall, compact stance and rounded-rectangle construction. Curves are treated as softened corners rather than true ovals, producing squarish bowls and counterforms in letters like O, D, and 0. Terminals are crisp and flat, with consistent stroke width and a slightly modular feel; joins stay clean and largely orthogonal, with diagonals used sparingly and kept tight. Spacing is economical and the rhythm is vertical and even, while distinctive cut-ins and small apertures add bite to forms like S and G and keep the texture from becoming too uniform.
Best suited to short-to-medium display text where a compact footprint and a technical voice are desirable—headlines, posters, product branding, packaging, and wayfinding-style signage. It can also work for interface labels or title treatments when a retro-tech aesthetic is intended, but its stylized construction favors larger sizes over extended reading.
The overall tone reads engineered and retro-futuristic, evoking instrumentation, arcade-era display type, and utilitarian signage. Its narrow build and rounded-rect geometry convey a technical, space-age flavor while remaining orderly and controlled rather than playful.
The design appears intended to translate rounded-rectangle, device-like geometry into a readable condensed sans, balancing a futuristic display look with consistent stroke logic and clear silhouettes. Its construction emphasizes a controlled, engineered texture and strong vertical presence for impactful titles and marks.
Round letters and numerals share a consistent superelliptical logic, and several glyphs lean on internal notches or segmented details that enhance character recognition at display sizes. The condensed proportions create strong vertical momentum, making lines feel tightly set and graphically assertive.