Serif Forked/Spurred Dasa 9 is a very bold, very wide, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, signage, logotypes, western, carnival, vintage, boisterous, folksy, attention, nostalgia, showmanship, branding, spurred, wedge serif, soft corners, bulbous, ink-trap feel.
A heavy, wide serif with strongly bracketed, wedge-like terminals and frequent forked spurs that jut from stems and curves. Strokes are compact and rounded at joins, with a subtly irregular, softened edge that reads like inked display lettering rather than crisp text engraving. The italic slant is consistent across caps and lowercase, and the forms feel inflated and squat, with generous interior counters where possible despite the weight. Letterfit is roomy and the overall rhythm is bouncy, driven by prominent top and bottom serifs and mid-stem spurs that create a textured silhouette.
Best suited to display settings where the bold silhouette and ornate spurs can read clearly—posters, headlines, product packaging, event branding, and signage. It can also work for short, expressive subheads or pull quotes, but the dense texture and decorative terminals make it less appropriate for long-form reading at small sizes.
The tone is loud, playful, and nostalgic, evoking old posters, show bills, and frontier or fairground signage. Its chunky shapes and decorative spurs give it a friendly bravado—more theatrical than formal—while the slanted stance adds motion and swagger.
Likely designed to deliver an attention-grabbing, characterful serif for headline typography, combining old-style display cues with forked spurs and a lively italic slant to create distinctive word shapes in branding and poster work.
Uppercase forms emphasize strong horizontal caps and pronounced feet, producing a distinctive saw-tooth skyline of serifs and spurs in word shapes. Numerals match the letterforms’ weight and width, with sturdy, highly legible figures designed to hold up in large, high-contrast applications.