Serif Forked/Spurred Yaba 2 is a very bold, very wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, packaging, logos, western, circus, vintage, playful, boisterous, attention-grabbing, nostalgia, signage style, poster impact, decorative, ornate, spurred, notched, bulky.
A decorative serif display with chunky, block-like letterforms and carved-in notches that create forked/spurred terminals. The design uses strong horizontals, rounded-rectangular counters, and a mix of squared and softened corners that reads like cut wood or stamped metal. Serif details are pronounced and often split or indented, adding interior white cuts and small mid-stem spurs that give the shapes a sculpted, dimensional feel. Spacing and widths are irregular across glyphs, producing a lively rhythm best suited to larger sizes.
Best used for headlines, posters, and short emphatic lines where its carved details remain visible. It also fits branding, labels, and packaging that want a vintage or Western show-card feel, as well as large-format signage and logo marks where the ornamental spurs can become a recognizable identity element.
The overall tone is classic show-poster: bold, attention-seeking, and slightly whimsical. Its ornamental cuts and spurred serifs evoke frontier signage, circus bills, and retro advertising, projecting a confident, rowdy energy rather than refinement.
The design appears intended to reinterpret traditional serif structures into a theatrical, poster-ready style by exaggerating weight and width while adding chiseled notches and forked terminals. The goal is high-impact display typography with a nostalgic, sign-painter sensibility and strong personality.
In text settings the heavy weight and internal notching create dense texture; counters can close up quickly at smaller sizes. The strongest impression comes from the distinctive forked serifs and the repeated chiseled interruptions along stems and joins, which act as a signature motif across capitals, lowercase, and numerals.