Sans Superellipse Etres 5 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, sports branding, packaging, labels, condensed, punchy, retro, assertive, dynamic, space saving, attention grabbing, speed cue, display emphasis, slanted, rounded corners, squared bowls, tight spacing, high impact.
A compact, forward-slanted sans with tightly compressed proportions and a strong, graphic presence. Strokes are heavy and clean with subtly rounded corners and squared, superellipse-like bowls that keep counters narrow but legible. Curves transition into straighter segments with a slightly engineered feel, while terminals are mostly blunt and simplified. The overall rhythm is vertical and urgent, with consistent stroke behavior across caps, lowercase, and numerals that reads best at display sizes.
Best suited for headlines, posters, and short bursts of copy where space is tight and impact matters. It can work well for sports and motorsport-themed branding, packaging and labels, and punchy UI or wayfinding accents, especially where a compressed italic voice helps create momentum.
The tone is energetic and insistent, blending a sporty, poster-like immediacy with a retro-industrial flavor. Its narrow silhouettes and forward motion convey speed, urgency, and confidence, making it feel suited to attention-grabbing messaging rather than quiet text setting.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum visual impact in a narrow footprint, combining rounded-rectangle geometry with a strong slant to suggest speed. It prioritizes bold silhouette and consistent, simplified detailing for clear, repeatable shapes in display typography.
Uppercase forms stay disciplined and monolinear in impression, while the lowercase introduces more distinctive shapes (notably the single-storey a and compact, angular joins) that reinforce the condensed texture. Numerals follow the same condensed, slanted construction, helping mixed alphanumeric settings feel cohesive.