Sans Superellipse Tyza 10 is a bold, very narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, book covers, condensed, poster-ready, dramatic, vintage, theatrical, impact, compactness, vintage texture, display emphasis, ink-trap texture, wedge terminals, irregular edge, tall x-height, tight spacing.
A tightly condensed display face with tall proportions and emphatic vertical stress. Strokes show pronounced contrast, with thick stems and hairline joins that sometimes taper into pointed, wedge-like terminals. Curves are compact and slightly squared-off in places, giving bowls a rounded-rectangle feel, while edges retain a subtly distressed, inked texture. The rhythm is strongly vertical and columnar, with narrow counters and compact apertures that keep words dense and punchy.
Best suited to headlines and short bursts of copy where compact width and strong contrast are assets—posters, cover titles, packaging callouts, and branding wordmarks. It can work for subheads or pull quotes when sized up and tracked slightly to maintain legibility.
The overall tone is dramatic and slightly vintage, evoking hand-inked poster lettering and early print ephemera. Its condensed density and sharp tapers add urgency and theatricality, while the uneven inking brings a human, crafted edge rather than a purely mechanical finish.
The design appears intended as a space-saving, attention-grabbing display sans with a deliberately inked, slightly distressed finish. Its condensed proportions and dramatic contrast prioritize impact and character over small-size neutrality.
In text settings the tight widths and high contrast create strong word shapes but reduce clarity at small sizes, especially in crowded combinations and narrow counters. The numeral set follows the same condensed, high-contrast logic, reading best when given enough size and breathing room.