Serif Flared Usda 1 is a regular weight, wide, monoline, upright, tall x-height font.
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A crisp, low-contrast serif with subtly flared terminals and an incised, engraved-in-stone feel. Strokes stay largely uniform while widening gently into tapered, wedge-like endings rather than bracketed slabs. The design favors open apertures and squared-off curves with softened corners, producing sturdy, legible shapes and clear interior counters. Proportions read on the wide side with generous spacing, and the tall x-height makes lowercase forms sit prominently alongside capitals and numerals.
Its wide stance, open counters, and tall x-height support clarity in UI labels, navigation, and informational layouts, while the flared terminals add character for branding and headline work. It also suits editorial subheads and pull quotes where a clean, contemporary serif voice is needed, and can perform well in signage and wayfinding at medium-to-large sizes.
The overall tone is modern and composed, balancing a contemporary, engineered cleanliness with a faint classical inscriptional character. It feels confident and orderly, more refined than industrial grotesks but less formal than high-contrast book serifs.
The font appears designed to deliver modern readability with a subtle inscriptional serif flavor—combining near-monoline construction and generous apertures with controlled, flared endings to create a distinctive but restrained texture.
Distinctive details include the flared stroke endings on letters like E, F, T, and S, and the rounded-rect geometry in bowls and numerals (notably 0 and 8). The uppercase maintains a stable, architectural rhythm, while the lowercase keeps forms straightforward and highly readable in continuous text.