Outline Umri 2 is a light, normal width, low contrast, reverse italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, book covers, branding, vintage, whimsical, ornate, theatrical, storybook, period evocation, display impact, ornamental texture, engraved feel, decorative, tuscan, bifurcated serifs, engraved look, inline detailing.
A decorative serif design built from outlined letterforms with an internal inline that creates a hollow, engraved effect. Stems are slender and consistently drawn, with wedge-like, bifurcated (Tuscan-style) serifs and occasional curled terminals that give the contours a lively, calligraphic feel. Capitals are relatively tall and narrow with sharp apexes and pointed joins, while the lowercase keeps a readable, bookish structure but remains stylized through the open contours and interior lines. Numerals follow the same outlined construction and show a slightly playful rhythm, with rounded bowls and crisp, tapered endings.
Best suited to display settings such as posters, headlines, book or album covers, boutique branding, and packaging where the outlined, engraved look can be appreciated. It can work for short pull quotes or chapter openers, but long passages will read more as decorative texture than as comfortable body text.
The overall tone feels vintage and theatrical, like lettering from 19th‑century playbills, boutique packaging, or classic storybook titling. The hollow/inline treatment reads as ornamental rather than utilitarian, adding a sense of craft, flourish, and gentle eccentricity.
The font appears designed to evoke ornate, period-inspired signage and letterpress/engraving aesthetics by combining outlined construction with a consistent interior inline and expressive Tuscan serif shapes. The goal is strong visual character and memorable titles rather than neutrality.
Because the strokes are expressed as contours rather than filled forms, the design benefits from generous sizing and clean reproduction; at smaller sizes the interior detailing can visually collapse. The outlined construction also produces a lighter “ink color” on the page, emphasizing texture and personality over dense readability.