Sans Superellipse Ikboh 5 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, sports branding, packaging, titles, athletic, industrial, retro, assertive, blocky, impact, display, sporty, retro tech, bold branding, squared, rounded-corner, compact, stencil-like, angular.
A heavy, squared sans with rounded corners and a pronounced superellipse construction. Strokes are thick and largely uniform, with tight counters and small interior openings that give the face a dense, poster-ready color. Many joins and terminals are cut with crisp diagonal facets and notch-like cut-ins, creating a slightly mechanical, almost stencil-adjacent texture without fully breaking the forms. Curves are minimized in favor of rounded rectangles, and the overall rhythm is compact and punchy, with strong horizontal emphasis and stable, upright proportions.
Best suited to short, high-impact display work such as headlines, poster typography, sports and team branding, game or arcade-themed titles, and bold packaging callouts. It performs especially well when given ample size and spacing so the compact counters and notched details remain legible.
The font projects strength and impact, mixing sporty, arcade-like energy with a utilitarian, industrial edge. Its faceted cuts and squared softness read as retro-futuristic and action-oriented rather than neutral or text-centric.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum visual weight and immediacy while keeping a friendly, rounded-rectangle skeleton. The diagonal cuts and notches add motion and a manufactured feel, suggesting a deliberate blend of retro display character and contemporary geometric solidity.
In the sample text, the dark massing and narrow apertures are visually striking but can reduce clarity at smaller sizes, especially in letters with enclosed counters (e.g., B, R, 8) and in tightly spaced word shapes. The numerals follow the same blocky logic and feel built for display settings where bold silhouette matters most.