font_category: blackletter

Alonso Flair

Alonso Flair font

This font, as indicated by its namesake, was designed and started by the late Bob Alonso. It represents the first of his unfinished work to be completed by friend and colleague John Bomparte, following...

Journalistic

Journalistic font

Journalistic is one in a series of fonts designed for use in creating replica vintage newspapers. It is inspired by the nameplate of a New England newspaper from the 1920s. Its rough character is...

Schreibweise

Schreibweise font

Schreibweise is a pirate-flavored font inspired by a hand-lettered manuscript dating from 1492. The digital font features numerous traditional blackletter and discretionary ligatures and contextual alternates to help create the feel of genuine hand…

Text

Text font

Whereas blackletter types were hand written, Text letterforms are drawn using a series of graphic shapes that slot together in a series of permutations, one set for lower case and another for the upper...

Klute

Klute font

Klute references stylised forms of writing; historic Germanic, blackletter letterforms and graffiti and tagging. Its references are based on a personal idea of lettering – the action of writing is more personal and human...

Harbour

Harbour font

Harbour is a clash of Latin and Germanic typestyles – two conflicting letterforms, culturally, politically and aesthetically. Latin letterforms have a geometric base, blackletter types are calligraphic. Harbour takes calligraphic forms that derive…

Fulgora

Fulgora font

Fulgora is a sort of ‘calligraphic typography’ or ‘typographic calligraphy’, depending on the point of view. Inspired by late-medieval Bâtarde and Civilité blackletter styles, the Kannada and Sinhala writing systems from Southern India, Celtic…

Sibyl

Sibyl font

Sibyl is a beautiful display letter rich in structure, sumptuous in finish, and exquisitely detailed throughout. What amounts to a rarity among rarities—an inline schwabacher—required many hours study of traditional schwabacher fonts. The resulting…

Missale Lunea

Missale Lunea font

Missale Lunea is a calligraphic uncial typeface with a female note. The font offers lots of stylistic alternates, signs, zodiacs & symbols. OpenType features: stylistic alternates signs, zodiac & symbols, proportional, medieval numerals, Roman…

Simeon

Simeon font

Simeon is well suited for setting an short and medium amount of text with an historic impression. OpenType features: – over 650 glyphs – Central European faces – stylistic alternates and historical forms –...