Font Collection: 10 Free Blackletter Fonts
Blackletter fonts, often also referred to as gothic script fonts, are an old style of fonts that dates back to the 12th century. Today, you can see them digitalized and used in typographic artwork, though it is rare to see them used as display fonts. In this font collection, you will find some lovely and free blackletter fonts.
1. Cloister Blackletter
By typesetter and type designer Dieter Steffmann, Cloister Blackletter is a popular gothic script font. See it used in Heinritzh Sales’s illustration tutorial, Creating Complex Style Illustrations: A Process.
2. Blackletter
Another strong and interesting font by Steffmann, Blackletter has sharp, pointed ends at the bottom of the letters’ stems.
3. Canterbury Old English
The Canterbury Old English font embodies the spirit of the European medieval period.
4. Bertholdr Mainzer Fraktur
German CAD and font designer Peter Wiegel designed this blackletter font that has tight ligatures and excellent contours.
5. Rochester
Roger White, who recreates fonts using scanned artwork, designed Rochester, an expressive gothic script font.
6. ManuskriptGotisch
This font is based on a manuscript that dates back to 1514 by a printer who lived in Paris, France named Wolfgang Hopyl.
7. Kingthings Spikeless
A variant of Kingsthings Spike, this homage to blackletter fonts has fewer flourishes and is more legible than the original.
8. TypoasisBoldGothic
German type designer and writer Manfred Klein created this strong, thick, and organic gothic script font.
9. Hartwig-Schrift
The Hartwig-Schrift font is a bold German font face that appears to be very calligraphic in nature. The font’s compact aesthetic is due to its small amount of tracking.
10. Germanica
Paul Lloyd, a type designer in Australia and a transplant from the UK, designed this bold gothic script font.
Author: Jacob Gube
6 Comments (Add yours)
Tyrone
Nov 12 2010
I Like the Germanica and Canterbury old English fonts, with use them to my collection. Re-tweeted.
Ahmad
Nov 13 2010
Very Beautiful Fonts Thanks for sharing this list
Dustin
Nov 13 2010
I can’t really use these for work, but I do like them! They certainly have their place though.
Curtis Scott
Nov 15 2010
These are awesome! I’m trying to come up with a few ways to use these in my personal projects. Thanks for sharing!
Swopper Stuhl
Nov 30 2010
These are all awesome fonts! Although I might only be able to use about a couple of them.. and for special projects only… limited use, but still awesome work! Thanks for sharing here :)
webtrendset
Dec 01 2010
Awesome work… thanks for sharing