Serif Other Ohlu 11 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: book covers, editorial, headlines, pull quotes, posters, literary, old-style, refined, quirky, dramatic, expressiveness, heritage feel, display impact, editorial tone, bracketed, calligraphic, wiry, flared, spiky.
A high-contrast serif with wiry hairlines and sharp, tapered terminals, set on narrow proportions and a slightly irregular rhythm. Serifs are generally bracketed and often flare into pointed or beak-like shapes, giving stems and joins a lively, hand-influenced character rather than a purely mechanical finish. Curves are tight and crisp, counters are relatively compact, and several letters show distinctive asymmetries and hooked strokes that make the texture feel animated in continuous text.
Best suited to editorial headlines, book covers, pull quotes, and other situations where personality and elegance are more important than low-size robustness. It can work for short passages at comfortable sizes, but its thin hairlines and spiky detailing favor print-like or high-resolution settings and moderate leading.
The overall tone is bookish and refined, but with an eccentric edge—more storybook and theatrical than purely formal. Its sharp terminals and lively curves lend a dramatic, slightly whimsical voice that feels vintage without becoming strictly classical.
The design appears intended to reinterpret a traditional serif model with heightened contrast and expressive, calligraphic finishing, creating a distinctive voice for literary and display typography while remaining recognizable and readable as a text serif.
Uppercase forms read as dignified and display-friendly, while the lowercase introduces more idiosyncratic details (notably in letters like g, j, r, and s), increasing character in paragraphs. Numerals follow the same contrast and tapered finishing, maintaining a consistent sparkle at larger sizes.