Serif Forked/Spurred Idho 2 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, packaging, certificates, gothic, medieval, authoritative, ritual, dramatic, historic tone, display impact, ornamental edge, texture density, blackletter, fractured, angular, spurred, forked.
A compact blackletter-inspired serif with dense texture and strongly vertical construction. Strokes are heavy and fairly even in color, with modest contrast and frequent broken or notched joins that create a faceted rhythm. Terminals often finish in forked, spurred shapes, and many letters show mid-stem nicks and inward cuts that sharpen the silhouette. The proportions are narrow with tight internal counters, producing a dark, continuous typographic color in text.
Best suited to display use where the dense texture can act as a graphic element—headlines, posters, logos/wordmarks, album or event titling, and heritage-leaning packaging. It can work for short passages or pull quotes at generous sizes, especially when ample tracking and line spacing are available.
The overall tone is historic and ceremonial, evoking manuscript and print traditions with a stern, formal presence. Its sharp spurs and compressed spacing feel emphatic and commanding, lending a sense of gravity and tradition.
The design appears intended to deliver a faithful blackletter atmosphere with a crisp, high-impact silhouette. The forked terminals and mid-stem spurs add ornamental edge while keeping the overall structure compact and strongly vertical for bold, traditional display typography.
In the sample text the dense blackletter texture becomes prominent quickly, with distinctive word shapes driven by vertical stems and angular arches. The numerals and capitals carry the same spurred, forked terminal logic, maintaining a consistent ornamental bite across the set.