Blackletter Fonts

Amador

Post author:Parkinsonstaff
Post published:2004
Post category:blackletter

Amador. Designed in 2004 by Jim Parkinson. Originally released as a Type 1 font, Amador was refreshed (version2) and re-released as simple Open Type in 2012. A blackletter designed in…

Albion’s Very Old Masthead

Post author:Greater Albion Typefoundersstaff
Post published:2014
Post category:blackletter

Albion’s Very Old Masthead is inspired by traditional newspaper mastheads. A heavy Black Letter which brooks no argument, and can be emphatic and refined (emphatically refined?) at the same time.…

Albion’s White Christmas

Post author:Greater Albion Typefoundersstaff
Post published:2010
Post 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…

Albrecht Duerer Fraktur Pro

Post author:SoftMakerstaff
Post published:2016
Post category:blackletter

All SoftMaker webfonts come with at least 500,000 pageviews included. Blackletter is the classic “German” printing type. Starting in the 16th century and lasting well into the 20th century, most…

Alarm

Post author:Fust & Friendsstaff
Post published:1928/2018
Post category:blackletter

In the late 1920s the Trennert foundry in Hamburg-Altona, Germany, commissioned several fonts from freelancer Heinz König. His chunky, striking Alarm typeface and its blackletter-style companion, Wiking, are among the…

Aeronaut

Post author:FaceTypestaff
Post published:2009
Post category:blackletter

A Neogothic typeface that radiates trendy ease and allows bicolor compositions. The decorative elements of Aeronaut, the swashes we call parachutes and the squiggly arrows of the upper-case characters soften…

1883 Fraktur

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2009
Post category:blackletter

This family was inspired by the set of fonts used in the end of 1800s by the famous J. H. Geiger, printer in Lahr (Germany), especially these used to print…

1890 Registers Script

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2008
Post category:blackletter

This script font was inspired by the “Ronde” French script. It was in use from 1700s to 1900s (until 1960s in special circumstances) for registers, legal documents and texts, certificates,…

1742 Civilite

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2008
Post category:blackletter

In the late medieval period appeared a "semi-cursive" writing, the French "écriture de civilité". Quickly, it is carved and melted down in lead for printing. It is a very elegant…

1550 Arabesques

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2008
Post category:blackletter

Font inspired by the decorative elements and opening capitals frequently in use in the early 1500s, under Geoffroy Tory’s book “Champfleury” influence, especially in Lyon (France). It is an entirely…