Serif Forked/Spurred Rimi 9 is a bold, normal width, low contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album covers, event flyers, western, rugged, vintage, playful, dramatic, evoke western, add texture, increase impact, create motion, ink-trap feel, textured edges, bracketed serifs, spurred terminals, display italic.
A slanted serif design with heavy, compact letterforms and a lively, uneven silhouette. Strokes are generally sturdy with minimal contrast, while many terminals and joins form forked or spurred shapes that create sharp notches and small bite-like cut-ins. Counters tend to be rounded but irregularly contoured, and the serifs read as short, bracketed wedges that emphasize the italic forward motion. Overall spacing and widths vary by glyph, producing an animated rhythm that feels intentionally roughened and display-oriented.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings such as posters, headlines, packaging labels, and entertainment/event graphics where a textured, characterful serif can carry the tone. It can work for brief pull quotes or titles in editorial layouts, especially when the goal is to evoke a vintage or western-inflected atmosphere.
The texture and spurred terminals suggest a frontier poster or pulp-era headline mood—energetic, slightly mischievous, and a bit aggressive. It carries a handmade, stamped/printed character that feels nostalgic and bold without being formal.
The design appears intended to merge a traditional italic serif structure with expressive, forked/spurred terminals and deliberate roughening, creating a decorative voice that remains legible while projecting attitude and motion.
The jagged interior cuts and broken-looking edges are consistent across capitals, lowercase, and numerals, giving the whole set a cohesive distressed personality. The italic slant is strong enough to read immediately in running text, but the busy edge detail makes the face feel more at home at larger sizes where the rough contours can be appreciated.