Sans Superellipse Jirik 13 is a very bold, narrow, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, packaging, branding, techno, industrial, retro, futuristic, robotic, display impact, tech styling, geometric system, compact titles, rounded corners, squared forms, modular, compact, stencil-like.
A compact, heavy sans built from rounded-rectangle forms, with consistently softened corners and largely uniform stroke thickness. Curves are minimized in favor of squared bowls and superellipse-style counters, giving letters a constructed, modular feel. Terminals tend to be blunt or slightly rounded, and several joins and apertures are tight, producing a dense, punchy texture. The rhythm is narrow and vertical, with simplified shapes and occasional cut-in notches that create a mildly stencil-like impression in places.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings such as headlines, posters, title cards, logos, and bold brand marks where its compact geometry can read as a deliberate design choice. It can work well on packaging and UI/label-style graphics when you want a techno-industrial voice, but it’s less ideal for long-form text due to its dense apertures and strongly stylized letterforms.
The overall tone is futuristic and mechanical, with a strong retro-tech flavor reminiscent of sci‑fi titles, arcade graphics, and industrial labeling. Its blocky geometry and rounded squareness feel confident, utilitarian, and intentionally engineered rather than expressive or calligraphic.
This design appears aimed at delivering a distinctive, engineered look through rounded-rectilinear construction and tight spacing, optimizing for punch and recognizability at display sizes. The consistent superellipse geometry suggests an intention to feel modern and systematized, with a retro-futurist edge.
Distinctive angular diagonals (notably in K, V, W, X) contrast with the squared bowls, adding sharpness without breaking the rounded-corner system. Numerals and capitals share a consistent construction, and the lowercase follows the same modular logic, prioritizing graphic uniformity over traditional text comfort.