Sans Superellipse Irfu 16 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, sports branding, packaging, signage, industrial, retro, stencil-like, athletic, assertive, high impact, brand mark, industrial edge, display legibility, distinctive texture, blocky, rounded, squared, compact, ink-trap-like.
A heavy, block-built sans with rounded-rectangle proportions and consistently softened corners. The forms are wide and sturdy, with largely uniform stroke weight and minimal contrast, while counters and apertures are often reduced to narrow vertical slits. Several glyphs incorporate hard notches and incisions that read as stencil cuts or ink-trap-like bite marks, giving the silhouette a machined, segmented feel. Overall spacing appears tight and the rhythm is dense, producing strong rectangular word shapes at display sizes.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as headlines, poster titles, event graphics, sports identities, and bold packaging callouts. It can also work for signage or labels where a compact, blocky word shape is desirable, but it is less suited to long text due to tight apertures and dense texture.
The tone is bold and no-nonsense, combining a retro industrial flavor with a sporty, team-jersey energy. The cut-in details add a rugged, engineered attitude that feels utilitarian and loud rather than refined or delicate.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum visual weight with a rounded-rect geometry, while the recurring cut-ins introduce a distinctive, engineered signature that helps large type feel dynamic and industrial. It prioritizes strong silhouettes and brandable shapes over open, text-oriented readability.
Lowercase and uppercase share a similarly squared, high-impact construction, and the numerals follow the same compact, cutout logic for consistency in headlines and badges. The internal openings are small, so the design reads best when size and contrast are sufficient to keep counters from filling in visually.