Sans Superellipse Upha 5 is a bold, very wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: logos, headlines, posters, packaging, ui titles, futuristic, techy, retro-future, confident, friendly, display impact, brand presence, screen clarity, geometric cohesion, modern tone, geometric, rounded corners, squarish bowls, modular, blocky counters.
Letterforms are built from rounded-rectangle geometry with large corner radii, producing squarish bowls and counters that stay consistently soft. Strokes are heavy and even, with minimal modulation and clean terminals; many joins resolve into smooth, squared curves rather than circular arcs. The rhythm is expansive and horizontal, with compact interior counters in letters like a, e, and s, and a distinctly geometric look in numerals and capitals. Lowercase includes single-storey structures and simplified, blocky shapes that maintain a cohesive, modular system.
It performs best in logos, wordmarks, packaging, and poster-style headlines where its wide stance and rounded-rect geometry can be a defining visual signature. It also suits UI titles, product names, game/film graphics, and tech or automotive branding that benefits from a clean, engineered feel. For long-form reading at small sizes, the tight counters and heavy weight may feel dense, but it can work well for short labels and navigational headings.
The font communicates a confident, futuristic tone with a slightly retro-tech flavor. Its soft corners keep it friendly and approachable, while the heavy, engineered construction reads as assertive and modern. Overall it feels suited to digital interfaces, sci‑fi branding, and streamlined industrial themes rather than editorial or literary moods.
This design appears intended to deliver strong display presence through a consistent superelliptical construction and broad, stable silhouettes. The simplified, rounded-rectangular forms aim for a contemporary tech voice while preserving legibility at larger sizes. Its systematized curves and terminals suggest a focus on cohesive branding and interface-forward aesthetics rather than expressive calligraphy or text-first neutrality.
Several glyphs emphasize distinctive, constructed details—such as the squared bowls in O/Q/0, the angular, streamlined Z, and the tech-like diagonals in V/W/X—which reinforce the font’s synthetic, designed-from-shapes character. The sample text shows strong consistency across mixed case and numerals, with punctuation that matches the same rounded-rect logic.