Sans Superellipse Tyra 10 is a bold, narrow, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, headlines, signage, branding, quirky, handmade, playful, retro, rough, handcrafted feel, vintage texture, bold display, friendly impact, chunky, rounded, wobbly, compressed, stamped.
A compact, heavy sans with rounded-rectangle construction and visibly uneven contours. Strokes stay largely monolinear, but edges look slightly eroded or inked-in, producing a soft, irregular silhouette rather than crisp geometry. Counters are small to moderate and often ovalled or boxy-rounded, with tight apertures on letters like S and e. The uppercase set reads tall and condensed, while the lowercase shows friendly, simplified forms and a single-storey a; overall spacing is on the tight side, reinforcing a dense, poster-like rhythm. Numerals are similarly stout and simplified, matching the font’s blunt terminals and rounded corners.
Best suited to attention-grabbing display work such as posters, packaging, labels, storefront or event signage, and brand marks that want a handcrafted or stamped tone. It can work for short paragraphs when set large with generous leading, but its dense texture and tight apertures favor titles, pull quotes, and short UI/graphic labels over long-form reading.
The texture and wobble suggest an intentionally imperfect, analog feel—somewhere between rubber-stamp, hand-cut lettering, and distressed display type. It comes across as upbeat and a bit mischievous, with a retro craft sensibility that feels informal and approachable rather than corporate.
The design appears aimed at combining a rounded-rect sans structure with an intentionally rough, print-made surface. The goal seems to be strong impact in compact widths while adding warmth and personality through imperfect edges and slightly irregular stroke behavior.
The distinctive roughness is consistent across glyphs, giving long text a lively color but also making fine details merge at smaller sizes. The rounded-square skeleton keeps shapes cohesive even as the outlines fluctuate, helping the font maintain recognizability in headlines and short bursts of copy.