Sans Superellipse Irku 3 is a very bold, very wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, packaging, titles, retro, industrial, tech, arcade, sturdy, impact, retro tech, stencil-like clarity, display emphasis, branding, blocky, rounded corners, squared forms, compact counters, ink traps.
A heavy, block-based sans with squared silhouettes softened by rounded corners. Strokes are consistently thick and the forms read like carved rounded-rectangles, with small counters and tight interior apertures. Many joins show notched or chamfered cut-ins (ink-trap-like details) that add crispness and prevent blobs at heavy weights. Curves are minimized in favor of geometric squareness, producing a dense texture and strong horizontal rhythm, while maintaining clear, upright structure across capitals, lowercase, and numerals.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as headlines, poster titling, branding marks, packaging callouts, and display text for games or tech-themed projects. It also works well for bold UI labels or signage-style applications where a compact, rugged geometry is desirable.
The overall tone is bold and assertive with a distinctly retro-tech flavor. Its chunky geometry and engineered notches evoke arcade graphics, industrial labeling, and sci‑fi interfaces, giving it a confident, high-impact voice that feels both playful and tough.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact through squared, rounded-rectangle forms and tightly controlled negative space, while using subtle notches to keep dense strokes legible. It aims for a distinctive retro-industrial personality that remains clean and geometric for modern display use.
Spacing and shapes create a compact, poster-like color on the page, especially in the sample text where words lock together into solid blocks. The design relies on simplified, geometric construction rather than calligraphic modulation, and the small counters mean it benefits from generous size and breathing room in layouts.