Serif Forked/Spurred Puro 7 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logotypes, packaging, signage, gothic, vintage, dramatic, spiky, playful, decorative impact, vintage flavor, thematic titling, brand character, blackletter-tinged, ornate, bracketed, ink-trap-like, angular.
A very heavy, right-slanted serif display face with compact counters and a lively, chiseled silhouette. Strokes are broad and dark with moderate contrast, ending in sharp, forked terminals and small mid-stem spurs that create a bristly texture. Serifs and joins are angular and often bracketed into the main strokes, producing crisp internal notches and wedge-like cuts. Overall spacing reads a bit tight and dense, giving words a strong, poster-like color and a slightly irregular rhythm across different letters and figures.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings such as headlines, event posters, brand marks, packaging labels, and punchy signage where its dark color and ornate terminals can read as intentional texture. It can work for brief subheads or pull quotes, but the dense forms and decorative spurs make it less comfortable for long passages at small sizes.
The font conveys a medieval-to-vintage mood with a mischievous edge—dramatic, assertive, and a little theatrical. Its spurred terminals and carved forms evoke old signage, storybook titling, and dark-fantasy or Halloween-adjacent aesthetics without becoming fully blackletter.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, attention-grabbing display serif that blends classic signpainting/old-style cues with forked, ornamental terminals for character. It prioritizes silhouette, texture, and thematic flavor over neutrality, aiming to make titles and names feel stylized and memorable.
Round letters (like O/C) stay robust and slightly squarish, while diagonals and bowls pick up pointed corners that emphasize motion in the slant. Numerals are equally weighty and stylized, matching the letterforms’ sharp cuts and ornamental endings, which helps maintain a consistent display voice across mixed text.