Serif Other Pufi 2 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, book covers, headlines, branding, packaging, vintage, storybook, theatrical, quirky, gothic, display impact, vintage flavor, dramatic tone, handcrafted feel, narrow economy, bracketed, flared, tapered, pointed, calligraphic.
A decorative serif with tall, condensed proportions and a distinctly carved, calligraphic construction. Strokes show subtle swelling and tapering, with sharp wedge-like terminals and bracketed serifs that often flare into pointed tips. Curves and joins feel slightly irregular and hand-shaped rather than strictly geometric, giving the letters a lively rhythm. Uppercase forms are narrow and stately, while lowercase maintains a compact x-height with energetic ascenders/descenders and distinctive, sometimes angular bowls and shoulders.
Best suited to display typography such as posters, book covers, chapter titles, branding marks, and packaging where a historic or theatrical mood is desired. It can also work for short editorial heads and pull quotes when you want a distinctive, slightly gothic flavor. For long text or small UI sizes, the sharp terminals and condensed build may feel busy and reduce clarity.
The overall tone is vintage and theatrical, mixing old-world bookishness with a slightly mischievous, display-ready bite. Its pointed terminals and narrow stance evoke gothic and Victorian cues without becoming fully blackletter, making it feel dramatic and characterful. The texture reads as handcrafted and a bit quirky, suited to expressive headlines.
The design appears aimed at delivering a compact, high-impact serif with a hand-cut, vintage sensibility—something that reads immediately as decorative while still behaving like a conventional roman. Its narrow proportions and pointed serif vocabulary suggest an intention to create strong vertical emphasis and a memorable, period-leaning voice for titles and signage.
The font’s personality comes through in its irregular, ink-like tapering and the pronounced, often daggered serifs that create a strong vertical pull. Numerals follow the same narrow, serifed logic and look designed to harmonize in display settings. Spacing and shapes suggest it is intended to be read at larger sizes where the decorative terminals and subtle stroke modulation can be appreciated.