Serif Other Lale 12 is a bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, magazine, branding, packaging, editorial, dramatic, vintage, confident, formal, display impact, editorial voice, classic twist, brand character, bracketed, ball terminals, teardrop terminals, flared strokes, sculpted.
A heavy, high-contrast serif with sculpted, calligraphic modulation and pronounced bracketed serifs. Strokes swell and taper decisively, with flared joins and distinctive teardrop/ball-like terminals that give many letters a carved, ink-trap-adjacent look at inner corners. Counters are relatively compact against the large overall footprint, creating a dark color and emphatic rhythm in text. The design favors generous curves and soft transitions over rigid geometry, and the figures show strong thick–thin behavior with decorative terminals that remain consistent across the set.
Best suited to display settings such as headlines, magazine features, posters, and branding where its dark color and decorative terminals can carry the layout. It can also work for short, high-impact passages (pull quotes, titles, section openers) where a classic-but-unusual serif voice is desired.
The tone is bold and theatrical, mixing classic editorial seriousness with a slightly eccentric, display-first personality. It feels vintage-leaning and authoritative, with a touch of whimsy coming from the rounded terminals and sculpted inner shapes.
The design appears intended to reinterpret a traditional serif skeleton with amplified contrast and expressive terminals, creating a memorable, premium display face that stands out in editorial and brand contexts while still reading as recognizably serifed and formal.
In the sample text, the dense weight and ornamental terminals create strong word shapes and a distinctive texture, especially in mixed-case settings. The numerals and uppercase forms read as sturdy headline elements, while the lowercase maintains a traditional book-seriffed structure but with more pronounced terminal detailing than typical text faces.