Sans Contrasted Ergo 5 is a bold, wide, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, sports branding, packaging, signage, industrial, athletic, retro, assertive, technical, impact, machined feel, display clarity, brand presence, square, blocky, condensed counters, notched, chamfered.
A sturdy, squared sans with heavy, compact forms and subtly rounded corners. Strokes show clear modulation: verticals feel fuller while joins and terminals taper into wedge-like cuts, creating notched corners and a slightly carved silhouette. Counters are tight and often rectangular, with small apertures and a generally low internal openness that emphasizes mass and solidity. Uppercase proportions are broad and steady, while the lowercase stays compact with minimal ascender/descender drama, producing a dense, billboard-friendly texture in text.
Best suited for headlines, posters, signage, and bold branding systems where the compact counters and carved terminals remain crisp at larger sizes. It also fits sports and industrial-themed identities, packaging fronts, and label-style typography that benefits from a dense, high-impact word shape. For longer passages, it will be most comfortable at larger point sizes and with generous line spacing.
The overall tone is tough and no-nonsense, with a utilitarian, sports-and-industry flavor. The chiseled terminals add a faint retro-machined character—part scoreboard, part stenciled hardware—without becoming decorative. It reads loud, confident, and attention-seeking, suited to messaging that wants impact over subtlety.
This design appears intended to deliver maximum visual impact through dense silhouettes, squared geometry, and chiseled terminal cuts, balancing a contemporary sans framework with a machined, retro-technical edge. The stroke modulation and notched corners create distinction in display settings while keeping the overall construction simple and consistent.
The numerals follow the same squared, cut-terminal logic, with an especially robust "0" and compact bowls in "8" and "9" that reinforce a tight, engineered rhythm. Letterforms like S, C, and G show controlled curvature constrained by the squared construction, giving curves a slightly flattened, plate-like feel. Spacing in the sample text appears designed to hold together as a solid block, favoring display clarity over airy readability at small sizes.