Serif Forked/Spurred Otri 2 is a bold, very narrow, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logotypes, album art, packaging, gothic, dramatic, ornate, authoritative, ritual, high impact, historic mood, ornamental edge, title focus, blackletter, spurred, forked, angular, condensed.
A condensed display serif with tall, rigid verticals and sharply articulated, forked terminals. Strokes stay largely monolinear, with crisp corners and wedge-like notches that create a chiseled silhouette. Counters are tight and rectangular, and joins form angular kinks rather than smooth curves, giving the alphabet a mechanically consistent, architectural rhythm. The lowercase maintains a compact, narrow build with small apertures and strong stem emphasis, while numerals follow the same vertical, spurred construction for a unified texture.
Best suited to display settings such as headlines, posters, branding marks, and short statements where its distinctive terminals and narrow rhythm can be appreciated. It can work for themed packaging or editorial titles that want a gothic or historical edge, but extended paragraphs will tend to look dense unless set large with generous tracking and leading.
The overall tone is gothic and ceremonial, projecting severity and theatrical intensity. Its spurred details and blackletter-adjacent structure evoke historical gravitas and a metal-like hardness, making the text feel formal, ominous, and emphatic rather than conversational.
The design appears intended as a high-impact, condensed display face that fuses serif structure with blackletter-like rigidity and ornamental, forked finishing strokes. Its consistent vertical emphasis and chiseled detailing suggest it was drawn to deliver strong atmosphere and instant recognition in title and branding contexts.
In continuous text the dense vertical striping and tight counters produce a dark color and strong patterning, especially where repeated stems cluster. The design reads most clearly when given ample size and spacing so the inner notches and forks don’t visually merge.