Sans Superellipse Pinoh 5 is a very bold, narrow, monoline, upright, normal x-height font visually similar to 'Cosmic Lager' by Vozzy, 'Buyan' and 'Buyan Variable' by Yu Type, and 'Winner Sans' by sportsfonts (names referenced only for comparison).
Keywords: headlines, posters, branding, packaging, signage, industrial, authoritative, sporty, retro, space saving, high impact, strong branding, utilitarian clarity, condensed, blocky, squared, rounded corners, compact.
A compact, heavy sans with squared proportions softened by rounded-rectangle curves. Strokes stay essentially even in thickness, producing a dense, monolithic color with crisp exterior edges and small interior counters. Round letters (O, C, G) read as superelliptical forms rather than true circles, while joints and terminals are blunt and clean. The lowercase is sturdy and mechanical, with a single-storey a and g and a short, utilitarian t, maintaining a consistent, engineered rhythm across text.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as headlines, posters, wordmarks, packaging panels, and wayfinding or label-style signage. It can also work for punchy subheads and UI callouts where a compact, emphatic voice is needed, but very small sizes or text-heavy layouts may feel dense.
The overall tone is tough and functional, with a confident, no-nonsense presence. Its condensed, blocky shapes evoke industrial labeling and athletic or institutional graphics, delivering a slightly retro, utilitarian feel without becoming decorative.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum punch in a tight horizontal footprint, using rounded-rectangle geometry to keep the mass approachable while retaining a firm, engineered structure. It prioritizes bold presence, consistent rhythm, and a unified caps-and-figures system for display-driven typography.
Counters are relatively tight for the weight, so spacing and letterfit do much of the readability work, especially in long lines. Numerals follow the same squared, compact logic, matching the caps for a cohesive, signage-like texture.