Blackletter fonts, also known as Gothic or Old English fonts, are easily recognisable with their stylised appearance, characterised by dramatic thin and thick strokes, and in some cases their highly decorated caps.

With their strong characteristics, it's no surprise that these Medieval style fonts are popular to this day, with many foundries creating blackletter fonts with a modern touch, adapted to fit a variety of digital design projects.

In this article we have selected our very best blackletter fonts,  including beautiful uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as ligatures, alternative characters and extras to compliment your designs. With the variety included, you are guaranteed to find the perfect choice for your next project  from tattoo designs, logos, posters, book covers, and albums, to product packaging, labels and more.

 

1. BaeSide Blackletter Font

BaeSide is a modern Blackletter font with alternates that have an ornate flair. Included in this font pack are loads of alternates, ligatures, bonus flourish elements, and ornaments pulled from some of the capital letter forms.

BaeSide was designed as a display font for tattoo shops, drink labels, clothing labels, but can be used on a variety of design projects in need of a gothic touch.

2. WT Kingsbury Font Family

WT Kingsbury is an exclusive collection of 5 fonts inspired from the Old English era. The main font, WT Kingsbury Gothic, is harmonised by Lombardic and Blackletter font styles.

The collection also includes illustrations, vintage badges, victorian frames, floral ornaments and pre made badges that you can use for your project and allows you to create beautiful designs, headlines, posters, logo, badges, t-shirt and more.

3. Unlucky – BlackLetter Script Font

Unlucky BlackLetter Script Font is a really versatile font that is perfect for retro style designs.

Unlucky is described as a pessimistic blackletter script, but we can see this font has a lot of personality and potential and we can imagine it on t-shirt logos, packaging, social media designs and any other project that wants to make a statement.

4. Huntly – Blackletter Font

Introducing Huntly - an incredibly unique and distinct blackletter font.

We are confident this gothic black letter font will add a unique touch to your designs, and you can use it on a variety of projects which require a vintage feel: tattoo designs, logos, posters, book covers, albums and more.

5. Bogus Jack – Vintage Font

Introducing Bogus Jack – Vintage Blackletter Font.

Bogus Jack is an amazingly unique blackletter font with a strong and classic vibe. Get inspired by its original feel and use it for tattoo designs, logos, posters, book covers, albums and more!

6. Wild Star Font Duo

Wild Star is a font duo not to be tamed – this pairing of modern blackletter font & unrestrained script font aren’t afraid to make your message heard loud and clear.

Wild Star Font Duo is a bold choice for merchandise, album artwork, logo designs, quotes and many more design projects.

7. Candelabra Blackletter Font

Candelabra is a blackletter font full of medieval mysticism and age.

An ideal choice for tattoo studios, band logos and album art, trendy fashion apparel, book covers, game design, packaging design and more. Historical and modern aesthetics are both easily achieved with this personality rich font.

8. Zouk – Gothic Calligraphy

“Zouk” is the transformation of the classic blackletter font into the modern world. This modern blackletter font will make a great choice for a new style brand.

We can envision Zouk on a variety of modern vintage inspired projects such as: tattoo design, product packaging, branding and gothic lettering.

9. LockDown Font

Lock Down is a modern blackletter font designed to be used as a display font for tattoo shops, t-shirts, posters, drink labels.

The font also includes a bonus set of matching flourish design elements that are sure to make all your design projects stand out even more.

10. Mokgech Typeface

The Mokgech typeface is inspired by cool old style blackletter letters.

This black letter font is suitable for any gothic, tattoo, serious and horror themed design. We can see it on the design of alcoholic beverage packaging, tattoo, pomade designs, barbershops and many more projects in need of a Victorian classic feel.

11. Soft Notes SVG Blackletter Font

Soft Notes is a feminine blackletter calligraphy font.

Soft Notes also includes a small set of swashes and splatters, perfect to decorate your designs and make them stand out. This blackletter font is suitable for a variety of designs such as postcards and notes, logotypes, social media posts, branding and packaging.

12. Candlebright Blackletter Font

Candlebright is a gothic calligraphy font including 345 glyphs, as well as swashes, ligatures, and a set of matching ornaments.

Candlebright works particularly well in logotypes, or as a display font in editorial designs and websites. The set of matching ornaments is perfect to add a touch of elegance to any design, and you can use it to achieve eye-catching social media and promotional images.

13. Killviners – Modern Blackletter Font

Introducing Killviners – a modern blackletter typeface perfect for all your modern projects in need of a unique look.

Packed with plenty of stylistic alternates this modern blackletter font will be perfectly suited for a variety of designs including: logo, branding,clothing and fashions, as well as product packaging and many more.

14. Belligoes Blackletter Font

Meet Bullgine – the gothic blackletter font with a modern look.

This gothic font is full of attitude and it's ready to make a statement on any design project you might have in mind: logos, clothing, fashion, headlines,branding and more.

15. Bullgine Blackletter

Belligoes font is a font inspired by the blackletter font styles, but created with a modern look so it can add a strong and unique look to any design.

The Belligoes font is very suitable for creating album cover designs, tattoo logos, whiskey labels, packaging and many more projects and it's sure to always make a statement.

16. Black Mild Typeface

Introducing Black Mild Typeface, a font that is inspired by the old gothic style writing which is commonly known as the blackletter style. Black Mild typeface is made with a simpler and more modern touch to fit into more digital design projects.

The Black Mild blackletter font is perfectly suited for gothic and vintage themed design projects, rock designs, whiskey packaging designs and more.

17. Aviorte Typeface

Discover Aviorte Typeface - an elegant, clean, formal and beautiful blackletter font.

The decorative uppercase make this font a very decorative and beautiful font that would look amazing on a variety of designs such as: titles, headlines, or logotype designs, badge designs, t-shirt designs, branding and many more.

18. Hello Mytoys Blackletter

Meet Hello Mytoys - a modern blackletter font with a strong and unique look.

Packed with stylistic alternates: swashes, ligatures and alternative characters, make this modern blackletter font perfectly suited for a variety of designs including, but not limited to: album cover designs, tattoos, logos, product packaging, whiskey labels.

19. Overgreed – Rounded Blackletter

Overgreed is a modern blackletter font with a touch rounded style. With an elegant modern style, it adds a bold touch to your projects and will inspire you to create something unique and modern.

Overgreed Font is ideal for headings, flyers, greeting cards, product packaging, book covers, printed quotes, logotype, apparel design, and album covers.

20. Forestine – Stylish Blackletter

Introducing, Forestine, a stylish blackletter font.

Forestine is a modern and stylish blackletter typeface that will make your project more stunning and unique. It comes with a handwritten and rough feel, and will give your projects a natural feel.

21. Aihet Script

Meet Aihet Script - a font with a blackletter style, including a full set of gorgeous uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as ligatures, alternative characters and extras vector ornaments to compliment it's look.

With its vintage style, Aihet Script Blackletter font is perfectly suited on a multitude of designs: vintage beverage labels, tattoo logo, barbershop branding, badges, clothing, packaging and more.

22. Belong Faith

Belong Faith is a unique and modern blackletter font.

Packed with loads of swashes, ligatures and alternative characters, Belong Faith is sure to make a statement on any design project coming its way. We'd like to see this beautiful blackletter decorate your labels, logos, tattoos, music album covers, but will work great on any other design you might think of.

23. Auvelamerde

Auvelamerde is a unique blackletter font - with tall letters and close spacing, Auvelamerde has the look and feel of a blackletter font but it's been modified to fit in the digital lettering world and work on a variety of project.

Use Auvelamerde on any vintage-style designs, classic logos, vintage label and packaging designs and you'll be sure to make a statement.

24. Acinonyx Jubatus

Acinonyx Jubatus is a modern Blackletter font with a vintage feel. With its ornamental style, Acinonyx Jubatus is sure to make its presence known and stand out from a crowd of blackletter fonts.

This font is perfect for tattoo design and vintage lettering projects, but it will find its place on a variety of other projects.

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We hope you've enjoyed this article and you've found a blackletter font that you'd like to include in your designs. If you are still looking for inspiration, we have a variety of vintage, old English style and typewriter fonts you might also like to browse.

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