Serif Flared Gamo 3 is a bold, normal width, monoline, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, book titles, brand marks, packaging, gothic, heraldic, medieval, academic, dramatic, historic flavor, inscriptional feel, emblematic display, authoritative tone, angular, chiseled, faceted, high contrast, pointed serifs.
This typeface is built from sturdy, straight-sided forms with pronounced faceting and angled terminals. Strokes maintain a largely even thickness, but widen into sharp, flared endings that read like wedge serifs, producing crisp corners and a carved, geometric silhouette. Counters tend toward polygonal shapes (notably in C, G, O, and 0), and diagonals are clean and assertive, giving the design a disciplined rhythm. Lowercase forms echo the same angular construction, with compact bowls and pointed joins, keeping texture dense and strongly graphic in text.
It suits short-to-medium display settings where its chiseled texture can be appreciated—headlines, posters, book covers, title sequences, labels, and branding that aims for tradition or gravitas. In running text it will create a strong, dark color, making it best for larger sizes or sparing use as an accent face.
The overall tone is formal and old-world, evoking inscriptions, blackletter-adjacent tradition, and heraldic display without becoming fully calligraphic. Its sharp terminals and faceted curves lend a ceremonial, authoritative feel that can read as historic, dramatic, and slightly austere.
The design appears intended to translate gothic and inscriptional cues into a clean, geometric system: faceted curves, wedge-like serifs, and uniform stroke behavior create a bold, emblematic voice that remains highly structured and legible at display sizes.
The glyph set shown emphasizes consistent angular logic across caps, lowercase, and figures; round letters are systematically octagonal, and many terminals resolve into small triangular points. Numerals follow the same faceted construction, with a particularly emblematic, coin-like 0 and 8.