Serif Forked/Spurred Gobo 12 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, book covers, packaging, gothic, medieval, occult, dramatic, antique, ornamental display, period flavor, darker tone, high character, spurred, forked, thorny, blackletter-like, angular.
A decorative serif with sharp, forked terminals and frequent mid‑stem spurs that give strokes a thorny, flared finish. The letterforms are compact and generally narrow, with moderately modulated strokes and crisp, pointed joins rather than soft curves. Counters tend to be tight, and many characters show asymmetric swell-and-taper behavior, creating a lively, uneven rhythm across words. Capitals are ornate without heavy texture, while lowercase stays relatively upright with distinctive hooked endings and occasional wedge-like feet.
Best suited to display applications such as headlines, posters, title cards, album art, and branded marks where its spurred detailing can be appreciated. It can also work for short subheads, pull quotes, or thematic packaging in genres like horror, fantasy, or historical revival styling, but is less comfortable for continuous body text.
The overall tone reads gothic and old-world, evoking medieval signage, dark fantasy, and occult-adjacent aesthetics. Its spurs and pointed terminals add drama and edge, projecting a ritualistic, mysterious mood rather than a friendly or contemporary one.
The design appears intended to reinterpret traditional serif and blackletter-adjacent cues into a compact display face, using forked terminals and spur accents to create a distinctive, period-inflected silhouette. The goal seems to be immediate thematic signaling and high personality rather than neutral readability.
In text, the dense internal details and spurred terminals can visually accumulate, especially in smaller sizes or long passages, so spacing and size choice strongly affect clarity. Numerals follow the same ornamental logic, with pointed terminals and narrow proportions that match the caps.