Sans Superellipse Ipby 5 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, italic, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, sports branding, packaging, social ads, sporty, punchy, assertive, energetic, retro, impact, speed, headline focus, brand presence, modern retro, rounded, compact, slanted, blocky, soft-cornered.
A heavy, right-slanted sans with rounded, superellipse-like construction and compact internal counters. Strokes are broad and consistent, with subtly faceted curves and softly squared corners that keep round letters feeling sturdy rather than delicate. Terminals are mostly blunt, and many joins and diagonals read as clean, engineered cuts, producing a tight, forward-leaning rhythm. The lowercase is dense and high-bodied, with single-storey forms and short, sturdy apertures that emphasize mass and impact.
Best suited for short, prominent copy such as headlines, posters, athletic or motorsport-style branding, product packaging, and high-impact digital ads where a bold, kinetic voice is needed. It can also work for logos and wordmarks that benefit from a wide, slanted stance and rounded industrial geometry.
The overall tone is fast, forceful, and attention-grabbing, combining sporty urgency with a slightly retro, poster-like confidence. Its rounded geometry softens the aggression, giving it an approachable “power” feel suitable for bold messaging.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a sense of speed: a dense, rounded-rectilinear skeleton, strong slant, and simplified counters that hold together at large sizes. The consistent, engineered shapes suggest a focus on display performance and confident branding rather than quiet text setting.
In text, the dark color and compact counters create strong texture and high visual weight; spacing and shapes feel optimized for headlines where the slant and width can build momentum across a line. Numerals match the letterforms with similarly rounded, blocky silhouettes and clear, simplified interiors.