Sans Superellipse Talos 10 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, signage, album art, industrial, rugged, compressed, stenciled, noir, distressed display, vintage print, labeling, impactful titles, condensed, rectilinear, rounded corners, rough edge, ink trap.
A condensed, all-caps-forward sans with rounded-rectangle construction and a heavily worked, distressed edge. Strokes are thick and mostly monolinear, with subtly softened corners that keep the geometry from feeling brittle. Counters and apertures are small and squared-off, creating a dense texture in text, while occasional notches, speckling, and irregular inner edges simulate worn printing or dry-ink coverage. The overall rhythm is tight and vertical, with short extenders and compact proportions that emphasize a tall, poster-like silhouette.
Best suited to display settings where a compact, forceful voice is needed—posters, event graphics, packaging, merch, and signage. It performs well in short bursts (titles, labels, pull quotes) where the distressed texture can read as intentional materiality rather than noise.
The font conveys a gritty, utilitarian tone—part factory label, part vintage poster. Its distressed surface adds a tactile, analog feel that suggests wear, age, or stamped/printed artifacts, giving headlines a tough, streetwise character.
The design appears intended to combine rounded-rectangle, condensed sans structure with a deliberately worn print treatment, producing a high-impact display face that feels industrial and vintage at once.
Letterforms keep a consistent rounded-rect geometry across both cases, and the numerals follow the same compact, blocky logic for a cohesive set. The distressing is strong enough to become a defining feature, especially at smaller sizes where counters can close up and the texture dominates.