Serif Forked/Spurred Ofry 6 is a bold, very narrow, low contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, book covers, game titles, brand marks, gothic, storybook, old-world, mystical, dramatic, atmosphere, period flavor, ornament, title impact, theatricality, spurred, forked, ink-trap, pointed, calligraphic.
A decorative serif with sharp, forked terminals and small mid-stem spurs that give many strokes a notched, flame-like finish. The letterforms are compact and tall in feel, with tight internal counters and a distinctly short lowercase x-height against comparatively prominent ascenders and descenders. Strokes are largely even in thickness, with crisp joins and wedge-like serifing that often breaks into split points; curves (notably in O/C/e) stay rounded but end in angular cuts rather than soft brackets. The overall rhythm is dense and vertical, with slightly idiosyncratic widths across glyphs that keeps the texture lively in text.
Best suited to display use where the distinctive spurs and forked terminals can be appreciated—titles, chapter heads, packaging, and thematic branding. It can work for short editorial bursts or pull quotes at comfortable sizes, but the dense texture and tight counters suggest avoiding very small text or low-resolution applications.
The font carries an old-world, slightly gothic tone—dramatic without becoming fully blackletter. Its spurred detailing and pointed terminals suggest fantasy, folklore, and period flavor, lending a mysterious, theatrical voice to headlines and short passages.
The design appears intended to modernize gothic/medieval cues into a compact decorative serif, emphasizing pointed terminals and spurred stems to create a memorable, atmospheric texture while staying legible in typical display contexts.
In the sample text, the spurs and forked endings become a repeating texture that reads as ornamental grain, especially on vertical strokes in H, M, N, and lowercase stems like h, n, and p. Numerals maintain the same sharp serif language, helping the set feel cohesive in display settings.