Serif Flared Lore 9 is a bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, editorial, packaging, book covers, vintage, stately, assertive, bookish, impact, tradition, character, display clarity, editorial tone, bracketed, flared, wedge serif, ink-trap, ball terminal.
A heavy, high-contrast serif with strongly flared, wedge-like terminals and pronounced bracketed joins. Stems stay robust while hairlines pinch sharply, creating crisp interior apertures and a taut rhythm in text. The lowercase shows a compact, sturdy construction with a single-storey a and g, a strong, left-hooking j descender, and a teardrop-like, slightly angled t crossbar. Numerals are similarly weighty and sculpted, with notable curves and tapered entry/exit strokes that reinforce a carved, poster-like presence.
Best suited to display settings such as headlines, posters, and book or magazine titling where its weight and sharp contrast can carry impact. It can also work for branding and packaging that benefits from a classic, authoritative serif with distinctive flare, while longer passages will appear dense and bold in tone.
The overall tone feels editorial and traditional, with a confident, headline-forward gravity. Its sharp tapers and sculpted serifs add a hint of vintage print character, giving it a stately, slightly theatrical voice that reads as deliberate and authoritative.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold editorial serif with sculpted, flared terminals—balancing traditional serif structure with sharpened contrast for attention-grabbing typography. Its forms prioritize presence and character in large sizes while maintaining coherent, readable proportions across mixed-case text.
In running text the tight counters and pointed tapers create a darker color and strong vertical emphasis, while the flared endings keep the texture lively. The design’s distinctive hooks and wedge terminals become especially prominent at larger sizes, where the sharp detailing reads as intentional ornament rather than texture.