Round typefaces keep going in and out of fashion, for many reasons. One of them always has been the media the face would be used for: type on screens and back-lit signs suffers from radiant light. Sharp type will look blunt, and the amount of bluntness that occurs is usually unpredictable.
Erik van Blokland is the inventor of the Superpolator software for interpolating typeface weights weights. Here's Erik Spiekermann's Unit Rounded in action.
This is to help with generating different weights within a font family?
ersoupio 2 years ago