Serif Forked/Spurred Abwi 3 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: book titles, posters, packaging, branding, headlines, gothic, storybook, antique, dramatic, ornate, evoke antiquity, add drama, decorate text, create texture, display impact, spurred, wedge serif, calligraphic, ink-trap, textured.
This serif face uses tall, compact proportions with sharp, wedge-like serifs and frequent forked or spurred terminals that create a lively, carved silhouette. Strokes show pronounced contrast between thick verticals and thin connecting hairlines, with tapered joins and angular cut-ins that read like pen or chisel work. The rhythm is slightly irregular by design, with subtly varied widths and pointed details that add texture in words while remaining cohesive across the alphabet and numerals.
This font is well suited to book covers, chapter openers, posters, and editorial headlines where a historic or fantastical tone is desired. It can also work for branding and packaging that benefit from an antique, crafted look. For longer passages, it will be most comfortable at moderate-to-large sizes where the fine hairlines and decorative terminals have room to breathe.
The overall tone feels gothic and antiquarian, with a storybook or old-world imprint character. Its spurs and sharp terminals introduce a touch of drama and eccentricity, making text feel historic, mysterious, and decorative rather than purely neutral.
The design appears intended to blend traditional serif construction with expressive, forked terminals to evoke an older, printed or engraved feel while still functioning in continuous text. Its narrow stance and strong contrast suggest a focus on space-efficient, high-impact typography with distinctive texture and personality.
In the sample text the face holds together at larger paragraph sizes, but the thin strokes and busy terminals create visible texture and a darker color overall. Capitals have a display-like presence, and the numerals share the same tapered, spurred construction for a consistent voice in headings and short runs of text.