Serif Normal Lerim 3 is a bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, logotypes, invitations, decorative, whimsical, vintage, theatrical, playful, add personality, create texture, display impact, retro flavor, flared serifs, inktraps, swashy, bubbly counters, notched terminals.
A decorative serif with pronounced flared serifs and dramatic, ink-trap-like notches carved into stems and joins. Strokes show strong thick–thin contrast, with sharp wedge terminals and occasional spur-like details that create a lively, cutout silhouette. Counters are rounded and often interrupted by teardrop or bite-shaped openings, giving many letters a perforated, ornamental texture. Proportions read on the wider side with a steady baseline and upright stance, while widths vary noticeably across the set for a more display-oriented rhythm.
Best suited to display settings where its internal cutouts and flared serifs can be appreciated—headlines, posters, packaging, event titles, and expressive branding marks. It can also work for short blocks of larger text (pull quotes, chapter heads), but the ornamental detailing is likely to feel busy for long-form body copy.
The face carries a playful, slightly mischievous tone—part vintage poster, part storybook ornamentation. Its carved-in details and spiky flares suggest theatrical flair and a handcrafted, quirky personality rather than restrained book typographic neutrality.
Likely designed to provide a conventional serif skeleton infused with conspicuous, signature cut-ins and flared terminals for immediate recognizability. The goal appears to be a readable yet unmistakably decorative face that evokes vintage display typography while maintaining consistent structure across the character set.
The distinctive internal notches and punctured-looking joins become a key identifying feature across caps, lowercase, and numerals, creating a consistent decorative motif. At smaller sizes these details may visually merge, while at larger sizes they function as characterful texture.