BLAYDES - A modern geometric Blackletter style

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Playing around with some more experimental geometric forms for a Blackletter-ish font. It doesn't really involve or honors any actual calligraphic traditions. The font is actually just a simple geometric sans that was modified to sort of faking the looks and style of a Blackletter.

I tried replicating various elements that are traditionally seen in a Blackletter, such as: angular-styled segments such as strokes, transitions, tapered endings or serifs with a different approach. I used a set of circular shapes and variations to these in order to achieve a similar effect.

The end result sits somewhere between this obesed airport Grotesk, a contemporary Blackletter and the work of a bladesmith.

It has some very sharp and pointy tips, and for some reason this often very 'sword-like' forms.

STF_Littera Textualis Emergo - A formal Gothic minuscule script.

It is finally done!

It took me around 3 full days of design work and polishing.

The major character design part is about done, and I probably will only add some additional extra ligatures and special characters.

The design approach is a large grid Faux Bezier style to get the most out of custom shaping Top/bottom grid scale is a total of 71 bricks with ascenders and descenders included.

I have done a whole lot of finalizing background work already, and many pairs have been kerned already, but not everything was done yet, this is going to be completed within the next few days.

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- Littera Textualis Emergo -

A formal Gothic minuscule that was inspired by Latin bookhand script, better known as 'Textualis'. This script was popular between the 12th & 16th century. Basically Those that would have been used for the main text of Latin books.

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A more detailed description is has been written down in a sample image posted in the comment section bellow.

I hope y'all like it as much as I do.

Cheers

A modernized geometric monoline gothic script design in progress.

Its a all caps design but with a double sized uppercase.

The style of design metrics made it tough to allign the punctuations so that they all fit both upper & lowercase strings, but I did it the best I could.

No numerals done yet, I might do them soon.

I hope you like it so far

Another textualis style calligraphic blackletter / gothic script typeface.

Besides the Basic Latin character set this has a lot of special use characters and alternatives too, such as:

Ligatures, Superscript, lining (default) & oldstyled numeral forms (located in halfwidth), traditional medieval punctuation marks (located in private use). And there is even a complete, but slightly modified & smaller version of the alphabet located in the Halfwidth unicode block as well.

I hope you like it! :)

Folder strips of paper style blackletter attempt. I wish I had better solutions for some charaters, but I had some tough struggles getting good looking glyphs for this style, for example uppercase T took me like 60 attemps and none ever really pleased. So I ended up with choosing the best of them en just went on with the rest. BUT, Zephram came to the rescue and delivered me a propper T, Arrrrr thanks matey!!!

Enjoy

STF_TOECUTTER - Sharp pointy sci-fi blackletter typeface.

Inspired by zephrams latest couple of entries!

FLUXING - Modern simplified geometric Blackletter

It's finally done, it took me nearly 2 days to get the kerning done and balance this baby, but here she is!

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SCRIPTORIUM - A Gothic script/Blackletter typeface design with drop shadow.

Another calligraphy inspired blackletter-ish design.

Another calligraphic tryout.

An attempt to create a calligraphic script typeface!