Sans Superellipse Ikbon 8 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, logos, labels, retro, industrial, playful, bold, posterish, impact, retro flavor, sturdy forms, counter clarity, chunky, rounded, blocky, soft corners, ink-trap-like.
A chunky display sans built from rounded-rectangle geometry, with heavy strokes, softened corners, and compact internal counters. Letterforms lean on squared curves and superelliptical bowls, producing a sturdy, modular texture with slightly irregular widths across characters. Many joins show small notches and tight cut-ins (ink-trap-like details) that sharpen the silhouette and help separate counters at heavy weight. The overall rhythm is dense and graphic, with blunt terminals, minimal curvature variation, and strong, even color in text lines.
Best suited for bold headlines, posters, branding marks, and packaging where strong shape and immediate impact matter more than long-form readability. It also works well for short UI badges, labels, and signage-style callouts when set with ample size and breathing room.
The font reads as retro-industrial and deliberately punchy, combining friendly rounded shapes with a rugged, stamped or arcade-like attitude. Its dense black presence and squared curves give it a confident, attention-grabbing tone that feels lively rather than refined.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum visual impact through rounded-block construction and dense typographic color, while using small cut-ins to keep counters from filling in at heavy weight. It aims for a distinctive, retro-leaning display voice that stays consistent across letters and numbers.
At larger sizes the distinctive notches and narrow apertures become key personality cues, while in longer text the compact counters and dense spacing can make word shapes feel heavy. Numerals and capitals match the same rounded-block construction, maintaining a consistent, poster-forward voice.