font_category: blackletter

NeuAltisch

NeuAltisch font

NeuAltisch is a calligraphic version of a modernized, more rounded Fraktur. Blackletter fonts of this sort are useful for decorative purposes in certificates, invitations, labeling, and advertising.The family has two weights, plus three versions…

AlbertBetenbuch

AlbertBetenbuch font

The inspiration for AlbertBetenbuch came from a typeface drawn by Albert Dürer and an interpretation of that face in Arthur Baker’s Historic Calligraphic Alphabets (Dover, 1980). It is not a recreation of either. The...

Goudy Lombardy

Goudy Lombardy font

Based on drawings of Medieval versals (capitals used at beginning of verses in manuscripts) by Frederic W. Goudy. Works beautifully as initials with Goudy Text Oldstyle. Uppercase only, no numerals or punctuation; several letters...

Goudy Text CT

Goudy Text CT font

This version of Goudy Text is based on drawings from which Frederic Goudy based his Goudy Text typeface. However, there is a big difference between his original drawings (in The Alphabet and Elements of...

Cloister Black CT

Cloister Black CT font

A clean-cut blackface type. As with all highly ornate typefaces, this should not be used in all caps.

Zumbelsburg

Zumbelsburg font

Zumbelsburg is an exuberant, calligraphic typeface. The lower-case letters of Zumbelsburg are fairly standard blackletter characters, but the upper-case letters are ornamental, often with large flourishes.

PhederFrack

PhederFrack font

PhederFrack is a calligraphic Fraktur face with three weights and a shadowed version. The shadow of the shadow version is also a separate font and it can be used to overlay the shadowed version,...

Medieval Gunslinger

Medieval Gunslinger font

What would happen if one took a rather crude, squared-serifed typeface of the type popular in the 19th century and added medieval and calligraphic ornamentation? Maybe the result would be Medieval Gunslinger.The MedievalGunslingerShadOverlay font...

Christmas

Christmas font

A “softened” blackletter with built-in “Christmas Ornaments”.