Sans Superellipse Oknep 5 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, branding, signage, playful, retro, quirky, friendly, punchy, compact impact, friendly display, retro flavor, brand distinctiveness, rounded, condensed, soft corners, ink-trap feel, poster-ready.
A condensed, heavy sans with rounded-rectangle construction and softened corners throughout. Strokes are mostly uniform with subtle narrowing and swelling at joins, creating an ink-trap-like pinched rhythm in letters such as V, W, M, and N. Curves read as superelliptical rather than purely circular, giving bowls and counters a squarish roundness (O, D, P, b, p). Terminals are blunt and slightly flared, and spacing is compact, producing a dense, vertical texture that stays legible despite the narrow set width.
Best suited to short-to-medium display settings where its condensed width and heavy color can maximize impact—headlines, posters, labels, packaging, and brand wordmarks. It can work for brief paragraphs in playful contexts, but the dense texture and compressed proportions will read most comfortably at larger sizes with generous leading.
The overall tone feels upbeat and characterful, with a mid-century display flavor and a slightly handmade, cartoon-adjacent charm. Its compressed proportions and chunky forms make it feel energetic and attention-seeking rather than neutral or corporate.
The design appears intended to deliver a compact, high-impact display voice built from rounded-rectangle forms, balancing friendly softness with strong vertical emphasis. It aims for recognizability and rhythm over neutrality, creating a distinctive silhouette in both all-caps and mixed-case text.
Distinctive details include the tall, narrow numerals and the open, simplified internal shapes that keep counters clear at small sizes. The uppercase and lowercase share a consistent rounded-rect geometry, and the font’s rhythm relies on repeated vertical strokes and softened interior corners, which helps maintain cohesion across mixed-case text.