Sans Superellipse Igny 6 is a very bold, very wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, sports branding, merchandise, friendly, punchy, retro, playful, chunky, display impact, friendly boldness, retro flavor, brand presence, soft corners, blocky, compact counters, low aperture, geometric.
A heavy, block-driven sans with rounded-rectangle (superellipse) construction and softly eased corners. Strokes are thick and uniform, with tight, compact counters and small apertures that create a dense, poster-like color on the page. Curves stay squarish rather than circular, and diagonals (as in A, V, W, X, Y) are broad and stable, emphasizing mass over sharpness. The lowercase shows sturdy, simplified forms with a single-storey a and a squared, compact r, while figures are wide and strongly filled, maintaining the same chunky rhythm.
Best suited to display settings where weight and width can do the work—headlines, posters, signage, packaging, and bold logo or wordmark explorations. It can also support sports- or entertainment-leaning branding systems and large-scale UI moments (hero titles, banners) where clarity comes from size rather than delicate detail.
The overall tone is bold and approachable, mixing a toy-like softness with strong, billboard impact. Its squarish roundness reads slightly retro and cartoon-adjacent, giving headlines a confident, good-humored voice rather than a formal or technical one.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a friendly, rounded-rect geometry: a compact, high-ink display sans that stays legible at large sizes while projecting a fun, confident character.
At text sizes the tight counters and heavy joins can close up, so the design reads best when given space and scale. The wide proportions and compact interior shapes produce a strong horizontal presence that works well for short, emphatic strings.