Sans Superellipse Usho 9 is a regular weight, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: ui design, app headers, branding, signage, packaging, techy, modern, utilitarian, architectural, industrial, geometric clarity, system design, display impact, screen legibility, rounded, squared, condensed joins, ink-trap feel, monolinear.
A squared, rounded sans built from superelliptic curves and flat terminals, with a distinctly boxy skeleton softened by generous corner radii. Strokes read largely monolinear, but the bowls and counters create a crisp, high-definition contrast between straight sides and rounded corners. Many glyphs show compact joins and tight interior notches that resemble subtle ink-trap shaping, adding snap to intersections and improving separation in dense areas. Counters are generally rectangular/rounded-rect in character (notably in O/0 and similar forms), and the overall rhythm is steady, with a slightly engineered, modular construction.
It works well for UI and product contexts where a clear, modern geometric voice is desired—navigation labels, dashboards, and feature headlines benefit from its crisp, squared forms. The sturdy shapes and rounded corners also suit branding systems, packaging, and signage where legibility and a technical aesthetic need to coexist.
The tone feels contemporary and technical—clean, structured, and purpose-built, like interface typography or industrial labeling. Its softened corners keep it approachable while the squared geometry maintains a precise, machine-made voice. The overall impression is confident and systematic rather than expressive or calligraphic.
The design appears intended to deliver a geometric, superellipse-driven sans that feels engineered and contemporary, pairing boxy structure with rounded corners for clarity and friendliness. The compact join treatment suggests an emphasis on maintaining definition in tight shapes and at display sizes, while staying consistent enough for short text blocks.
Distinctive details include a strongly squared zero and rounded-rectangle bowls, plus occasional internal cut-ins at joins that give the design a stamped or engineered quality. Numerals and capitals maintain a consistent, signage-like solidity, while lowercase forms preserve the same geometric logic for cohesive text setting.