Serif Other Puru 3 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: book covers, posters, packaging, editorial display, headlines, vintage, literary, quirky, hand-inked, rustic, compact impact, vintage flavor, text character, decorative editorial, spurred, condensed, textured, idiosyncratic, flared.
A condensed serif with tall proportions and a lively, irregular color. Strokes show pronounced contrast with tapered joins and wedge-like, spurred terminals that feel inked rather than mechanically uniform. Serifs are small and sharp with occasional flare, and curves have a subtly pinched, slightly wobbly contour that creates a textured rhythm across words. Counters are narrow and vertical, and the overall spacing reads tight and columnar, producing a compact, stacked appearance in text.
Best suited to display sizes where its condensed proportions and spurred details can be appreciated—headlines, pull quotes, book-cover titling, and poster typography. It can also work for vintage-leaning packaging, menus, and labels where a narrow, high-contrast serif adds personality and a crafted feel. For longer passages, it will read more as a stylized editorial voice than a neutral text workhorse.
The tone is old-world and slightly eccentric, evoking printed ephemera, bookish display typography, and hand-set or typewriter-adjacent nostalgia without literally mimicking a monospaced machine face. Its narrow, high-contrast build gives it a dramatic, storybook presence, while the irregularities add a human, crafty warmth.
The design appears intended to deliver a compact, attention-grabbing serif with a vintage print sensibility and a lightly hand-inked texture. Its narrowed structure and distinctive terminals suggest an aim to maximize character in limited horizontal space while maintaining a cohesive, story-driven tone in display settings.
In continuous text the vertical emphasis and tight internal spaces make the page feel dense and theatrical, especially where repeated verticals accumulate. Numerals follow the same tapered, spurred logic and include distinctive, looping forms that lean decorative. The overall impression balances readability with a deliberately imperfect, characterful finish.