Blackletter Kojo 9 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: logotypes, posters, headlines, packaging, album art, gothic, medieval, heraldic, ceremonial, dramatic, heritage, authority, tradition, impact, ornament, angular, blackletter, broken, spiky, high waistlines.
A compact, vertically driven blackletter with sharply broken strokes and wedge-like terminals. The forms are built from straight segments and tight corners, producing a faceted rhythm with crisp inner counters and frequent notched joins. Stems are heavy and consistent, while angled cuts and small spur details create a clear calligraphic logic without flowing curves. Uppercase letters are tall and authoritative with tight sidebearings, and the lowercase maintains a relatively even x-height with narrow apertures and pronounced vertical emphasis. Numerals follow the same chiseled, gothic construction, matching the alphabet’s dense texture.
Best suited for short display settings such as mastheads, logotypes, posters, event titles, and branded packaging where a traditional gothic mood is desired. It can also work for album art or editorial headlines when used at larger sizes with slightly increased letterspacing for clarity.
The overall tone is formal and historic, evoking manuscript tradition, heraldry, and old-world ceremony. Its dark, compact color and sharp details create a serious, dramatic voice suited to emphatic statements rather than casual reading.
The design appears intended to deliver a classic, authoritative blackletter voice with clean, consistent construction and strong verticality. Its controlled, angular detailing prioritizes emblematic impact and historical flavor over extended body-text comfort.
At text sizes the design produces a strong, continuous texture with tightly packed shapes and distinctive angular silhouettes. The sharp joins and small interior spaces suggest it will read best with generous size and careful tracking to avoid crowding.