Sans Superellipse Etbus 1 is a bold, narrow, low contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, sports branding, packaging, app headers, sporty, urgent, confident, modern, industrial, convey speed, maximize impact, modern branding, space saving, condensed, oblique, rounded, compact, punchy.
A compact, oblique sans with sturdy, low-contrast strokes and tightly controlled proportions. Curves are built from rounded-rectangle/superellipse logic, giving bowls and counters a squarish roundness and a firm, engineered feel. Terminals are mostly clean and blunt, with occasional soft rounding, and the overall rhythm is dense and forward-leaning with minimal white space. Numerals match the letterforms with thick strokes and rounded corners, producing a unified, high-impact texture in both caps and lowercase.
Best suited to short-to-medium display copy where impact and momentum matter: headlines, posters, sports or automotive branding, packaging callouts, and UI headers or promo tiles. It can work for brief emphatic text blocks, but the dense, slanted texture is most effective in larger sizes rather than long reading.
The slanted stance and condensed build convey speed and pressure—more “go now” than relaxed. Its rounded geometry keeps the tone friendly enough to avoid harshness, but the overall impression remains assertive and performance-oriented.
The design appears aimed at a fast, contemporary voice: a condensed italic sans that combines sturdy weight with rounded, superelliptical construction to project motion, efficiency, and modernity while staying visually cohesive across letters and digits.
The typeface maintains a consistent angular slant across uppercase, lowercase, and figures, with counters that stay open despite the compact width. The italic construction reads as structural rather than calligraphic, emphasizing a mechanical, aerodynamic silhouette.