Blackletter Lyry 2 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logotypes, album covers, packaging, gothic, medieval, dramatic, ceremonial, ornate, period flavor, high impact, heraldic feel, decorative texture, title setting, angular, spiky, faceted, beveled, ink-trap-like.
A compact, blackletter-inspired design with tall vertical stems, tight counters, and sharply pointed terminals. Letterforms are built from faceted, chisel-like strokes that create a rhythmic pattern of verticals, with pronounced diamond/triangular notches and wedge joins. Curves are minimized and expressed as angular shoulders and hooked arms, giving many glyphs a carved, metallic silhouette. Capitals are stately and narrow with strong central spines, while lowercase maintains a dense texture with consistent stroke endings and a crisp baseline presence; numerals follow the same angular construction for a uniform color across mixed text.
Best suited to display typography where texture and atmosphere are desirable—posters, event titles, album or game branding, labels, and emblematic logotypes. It performs especially well when set with generous tracking and ample size to preserve the internal apertures and the sharp stroke details.
The overall tone feels gothic and ceremonial—formal, intense, and slightly ominous. Its sharp geometry and dense texture evoke manuscripts, heraldry, and old-world signage, lending a dramatic, authoritative voice to headlines and titles.
The design appears intended to deliver a classic blackletter texture with a crisp, cut-stone sharpness, prioritizing impact and period character over neutral readability. Its consistent angular vocabulary across capitals, lowercase, and numerals suggests a focus on cohesive, decorative headline use.
The repeated pointed terminals and inner cut-ins create a lively sparkle at larger sizes, but the compact counters and dense vertical rhythm can visually merge in smaller settings. Mixed-case text reads with a strong historical flavor, and punctuation (notably the diamond-like dot) reinforces the crafted, ornamental character.