Sans Superellipse Ikkip 9 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, packaging, title cards, punchy, playful, retro, industrial, assertive, high impact, brandable, counter protection, retro display, stencil flavor, blocky, rounded, soft corners, compact counters, ink-trap cuts.
A heavy, block-forward sans with rounded-rectangle construction and softened corners. Curves are built from broad superelliptic arcs, while straight strokes stay rigid and vertical, producing a sturdy, poster-like rhythm. Many joins and counters show purposeful triangular notches and small cut-ins that read like ink traps or stencil breaks, adding texture and preventing dark areas from closing up. Counters are generally tight and rectangular, with a high fill-to-space ratio and strong, even color across words.
Best suited to display settings where impact and recognizability matter: headlines, posters, event graphics, brand marks, packaging, and bold UI or game/title-card typography. It can handle short bursts of text and taglines effectively, but the dense color and compact counters make it less ideal for extended reading at small sizes.
The tone is loud and attention-grabbing, mixing friendly roundedness with tough, engineered details. It evokes mid-century display lettering and bold packaging typography, with a slightly cheeky, arcade/print-era attitude created by the cut-in shapes and chunky silhouettes.
This font appears designed to deliver maximum visual punch with a distinctive rounded-rectilinear voice. The repeated notch/cut-in motif suggests an intention to keep counters open in heavy weights while also adding a memorable industrial-stencil character for branding and display work.
The design maintains consistent corner radii and notch geometry across uppercase, lowercase, and figures, which helps long lines of text stay coherent despite the extreme weight. Numerals and rounded letters (like O/0) retain a squarish inner shape, reinforcing the rounded-rectangle theme. The notches are prominent enough to become a signature motif, so they will be most noticeable at display sizes.