Serif Other Liwy 14 is a bold, wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, magazines, posters, branding, packaging, editorial, fashion, art deco, dramatic, luxury, display impact, stylized classic, decorative texture, premium tone, flared, wedge serif, chiseled, incised, cutout counters.
This typeface is a heavy, display-oriented serif with crisp, chiseled forms and prominent wedge-like terminals. Strokes are largely uniform in weight, but many letters feature sharp diagonal cut-ins and triangular notches that carve into bowls and joints, creating a distinctive broken-contour rhythm. Counters tend to be partially sliced or pinched, and several characters (notably rounds like O/Q and curves in S/C/G) show sculpted internal voids that read like stencil-like cutouts. Proportions run broad with stable, upright construction, and spacing in the sample text appears compact enough to form dense, high-impact blocks.
Best suited for headlines, mastheads, and short statements where the carved details can remain clear. It also fits branding and packaging that aims for a luxe, vintage-inspired, or fashion-forward impression, and works well for posters and promotional graphics that benefit from dense, high-contrast silhouette shapes.
The overall tone is glamorous and assertive, mixing classic serif structure with a stylized, geometric sharpness. Its carved details evoke a vintage poster sensibility—part Art Deco, part editorial masthead—resulting in a confident, slightly theatrical voice that feels premium and attention-seeking.
The design appears intended to modernize traditional serif letterforms with a decorative, incised treatment, prioritizing impact and recognizable texture over neutral readability. The repeated notches and wedge terminals suggest a deliberate display strategy: create a bold, graphic pattern across text while retaining an underlying classical serif skeleton.
Diagonal slicing is a consistent motif across capitals, lowercase, and numerals, giving the font a cohesive identity even at large sizes. At smaller sizes, the interior cutouts and tight joins may visually fill in, so the design reads best when given room to show its sculpted details.