Serif Other Doha 2 is a very bold, very wide, very high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, branding, packaging, signage, retro, theatrical, quirky, punchy, ornamental, display impact, decorative carving, retro flavor, logo presence, flared, incised, notched, bracketed, stencil-like.
This typeface is built from heavy, blocky forms with dramatic internal cut-ins that create a carved, notched silhouette. Strokes swell into broad vertical masses, while counters and joins are shaped by sharp wedge-like apertures, producing a strong figure/ground pattern. Serifs are present but stylized—often flared and bracketed into the stems—giving a sculpted, display-first rhythm rather than a traditional book face texture. Letter widths and sidebearings vary noticeably, and many glyphs feature distinctive vertical slits or scooped terminals that read as decorative incisions.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, headlines, logos, and packaging where the carved details can remain legible. It can also work for signage or editorial display callouts when used at larger sizes with generous tracking and line spacing.
The overall tone feels retro and theatrical, with a confident, poster-like presence and a slightly quirky, novelty edge. The carved details and bold silhouettes evoke signage and show-card aesthetics, balancing old-time charm with an assertive, modern punch.
The design appears intended as an attention-grabbing decorative serif that prioritizes silhouette and internal carving over neutrality. Its expressive cut-ins and flared serif treatment suggest a goal of delivering a distinctive, vintage-leaning display voice for titles and branding.
At text sizes the interior notches and narrow apertures can visually merge, creating a striped, stencil-like effect; this makes the design most convincing when it has room to breathe. Numerals and capitals carry the same incised logic as the lowercase, keeping the set visually consistent and highly graphic.