Serif Forked/Spurred Duba 13 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, logotypes, packaging, vintage, western, playful, rustic, punchy, attention, nostalgia, sign painting, display impact, characterful serif, bracketed, spurred, bulbous, rounded, soft-cornered.
A heavy, display-oriented serif with compact proportions and a lively, slightly bouncy rhythm. Strokes are robust with modest contrast and rounded joins, producing dark, confident letterforms. Serifs are strongly modeled and often flare into forked or spurred terminals, with soft, bulb-like endings that add ornament without becoming delicate. Counters are relatively small and the overall texture is dense, while curves and shoulders stay smooth and full, giving the face a cohesive, sculpted look across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals.
Best suited for display settings such as posters, headlines, storefront-style signage, and branding marks where its spurred serifs and dense color can carry personality. It can also work for short bursts of copy on packaging or labels, but the heavy texture and ornate terminals are likely to feel dominant in long-form body text.
The font reads as nostalgic and theatrical, evoking old-time signage and print ephemera. Its chunky forms and decorative spurs create a friendly, attention-grabbing tone that feels both handcrafted and slightly whimsical, with a hint of frontier or fairground character.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, characterful serif for attention-first typography, combining traditional serif structure with decorative, forked terminals to suggest vintage craft and sign-painting influence. Its consistent weight and rounded modeling prioritize impact and warmth over restraint.
Uppercase shapes feel sturdy and poster-ready, while the lowercase maintains legibility but keeps the same ornamented terminal language, especially on stems and diagonals. Numerals are bold and rounded, matching the overall weight and contributing to a strong, uniform color in text. The design’s distinctive terminals are most effective at medium to large sizes where the forked details remain clear.