Luminari
Philip Bouwsma returns with yet another great manifestation of historical calligraphy. Luminari is an amalgam of High Middle Ages writing, a blend that combines the ornate Church hands with the simple Carolingian from the...
font_category: blackletter
Alexander Quill
Alexander Quill was originally designed in the early 1980s to be cut in 14 point for casting into foundry type for the setting and printing of limited edition books at Pie Tree Press, Jim...
Influenza
Influenza, whose name means ‘the flu’ in a number of languages, is a fat, single weight typeface. It’s a bastard typeface, each character stands alone as an independent angular structure. Some characters have stylised...
Albo
Albo is part of a new set of typefaces inspired in ancient documents from Portuguese 15th and 16th century books. Based on a document from Afonso d’Alboquerque (Goa, July, 1514), Albo was designed to...
Krimhilde
Krimhilde was originally designed by Albert Auspurg and released in 1933 with the type foundry Ludwig & Mayer. The design mixes elements of German blackletter typefaces and geometric sans-serif designs, which became popular in...
Elfen Fraktur
Elfen-Fraktur is monolinear blackletter typeface, that was originally designed by M. Beck and published in 1919. This revival comes in two extended versions with a complete Latin 1 character set: Elfen-Fraktur A uses the...
Metalista
The Metalista font was created as a sign of undying admiration for the persistence of heavy metal culture. The angled font of almost fixed width proportions combines capitals with small letters for more variety and better definition of...
Brauhaus
I enjoy and am inspired by many blackletter designs, but find that their uppercase characters are generally too complex to be very usable. I also found that very few, if any were designed with...
Ironside Crosses
The Cross has a rich history and various meanings in many different cultures around the Globe. This font contains 178 cross symbols. Most of the designs have both a rectangular and square version.)
Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg is a classic blackletter stencil typeface. It is reminiscent of the days before computers when the best way to reproduce letters quickly was to stencil them.