Serif Other Ihgi 2 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, book covers, branding, headlines, packaging, antique, storybook, hand-hewn, quirky, rustic, add texture, evoke heritage, create drama, display focus, chiselled, flared, irregular, textured, crisp.
A decorative serif with sharp, wedge-like terminals and subtly flared strokes that give the letterforms a cut-from-paper or carved impression. Stroke edges appear intentionally uneven, with small nicks and tapering that create a dry, slightly distressed texture while maintaining clear counters. Capitals are sturdy and compact, while lowercase forms show a short x-height and lively, somewhat idiosyncratic construction that produces a varied rhythm across words. Numerals follow the same pointed, tapered logic, with angular joins and a lightly roughened silhouette.
Best suited to display applications such as posters, book or album covers, packaging, and identity work that benefits from an antique or handcrafted mood. It performs particularly well in headings, pull quotes, and short passages where its textured detailing and varied rhythm can be appreciated without overwhelming readability.
The overall tone feels antique and handcrafted, balancing formality with a quirky, illustrative character. Its textured, chiseled details evoke old-world printing, folklore, and theatrical ephemera rather than contemporary corporate polish. The result is expressive and atmospheric, with a slightly mysterious, storybook edge.
This design appears intended to reinterpret classic serif structure through a more hand-cut, decorative lens, using sharpened terminals and controlled irregularity to add atmosphere. The goal seems to be strong visual character for display typography while retaining enough serif tradition to feel grounded and legible in short text settings.
In text, the lively stroke modulation and irregular terminals create strong personality but also a busy surface, especially at smaller sizes or in dense paragraphs. The pointed serifs and flared joins add sparkle in headings and short lines, where the distinctive shapes have room to read cleanly.