font_category: blackletter

“Albion’s White Christmas” can only be described as a snowy blackletter. In the tradition of old childrens’ comics, yuletide magazine mastheads and vintage Christmas cards, it is a snow draped blackletter ideal for the...

Beckinslade is a lovely elaborate blackletter face, released just in time for Christmas, but useable at any time of the year. It is in the best traditions of Victorian Gothic revival, drawing inspiration from...

London Court is a family of three ‘Tudor Revival’ display faces, inspired by an inscription seen underneath a clock in a splendid Tudor revival arcade in Perth, Western Australia. The resulting typeface designs are...

Tudor Perpendicular is Greater Albion’s seasonal Black letter release (not that we rule out the possibility of non-seasonal ones…) for 2012. As the name suggests, it is a design which emphasises, and yes, exaggerates...

Some time ago, when we were working on our Merrivale family, it occurred to us that an adaptation of the design, incorporating selected Blackletter elements, would be in the best traditions of 19th and...

Wroxeter is Greater Albion Typefounders’ customary Black Letter release for Christmas 2013. It’s a typeface family for all times of year though, a good clear traditional black letter re-creation offered in a family of...

SpeedSwash is a stylised oblique script-fraktur hybrid. That description could should bizarre – lets face it, it does – but the result is actually rather splendid we think. Lovely for poster work where a...

Ledbury is a calligraphic display face, inspired by hand lettered specimens and combining Roman and Blackletter elements. It is designed with an extensive range of ligatures and stylistic alternate forms to preserve that hand...

Buntisland (we wonder where we came up with that name from… another subconscious whim), is Greater Albion Typefounders blackletter release for Christmas 2016. The family consists of four typefaces- regular, weathered, shaded and shadowed,...

Cantebriggia 1207 is Greater Albion’s Christmas Black Letter typeface for 2017. It’s a weathered calligraphic ‘English’ perpendicular. There isn’t a specific significance to the year 1207 – it’s just a reversal of the current...