Sans Superellipse Yihu 3 is a very bold, very wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, packaging, game ui, futuristic, industrial, techno, arcade, assertive, impact, sci-fi tone, branding, display legibility, geometric coherence, squared, rounded, blocky, geometric, modular.
A heavy, geometric sans built from squared-off strokes with generously rounded corners and rounded-rectangle bowls. Curves resolve into soft superelliptic shapes, while terminals are blunt and clean, producing a compact, machined silhouette. Counters tend toward rectangular openings (notably in O/0 and B), and joins are crisp, giving the design a modular, constructed feel. The overall rhythm is wide and steady, with simplified forms and minimal interior detailing for strong, high-contrast massing against the background.
Best suited to display sizes where its broad, blocky forms can read as a strong graphic statement—headlines, posters, branding marks, product packaging, and game/tech interface elements. In dense paragraphs it will feel forceful and space-hungry, but it excels in short bursts of text that benefit from impact and a futuristic flavor.
The font conveys a futuristic, industrial tone—confident and mechanical, with a playful arcade/console edge. Its chunky geometry and softened corners balance toughness with approachability, suggesting technology, machinery, and bold headline energy rather than delicate refinement.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum visual punch with a clean, engineered geometry, using rounded-rectangle construction to evoke contemporary tech and retro-future signage. It prioritizes distinctive silhouettes and consistent modular structure for memorable titles and identity work.
Distinctive features include squared, inset-style counters and occasional cut-ins/notches that emphasize a fabricated, stencil-like logic without fully breaking strokes. Numerals are similarly blocky and geometric, matching the alphabet’s rounded-rectangle language and maintaining consistent visual weight across lines of text.