Blackletter Upfe 1 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, album art, book covers, logotypes, medieval, gothic, dramatic, ritual, historic, historic evocation, dramatic display, manuscript feel, decorative impact, angular, ornate, calligraphic, pointed, spiky.
This typeface features sharp, broken strokes with pronounced thick–thin contrast and an overall right-leaning, calligraphic slant. Letterforms are built from faceted curves and pointed terminals, with wedge-like feet and tapered joins that suggest a broad-nib or pen-cut origin. Capitals are bold and compact with decorative spur details, while lowercase forms maintain a tight rhythm through narrow counters, abrupt stroke turns, and occasional sweeping entry/exit strokes. Numerals echo the same carved, angular construction with strong diagonals and hook-like terminals.
Best suited to display settings such as headlines, posters, and title treatments where its dense blackletter texture can be appreciated. It works well for album art, book covers, event branding, and logotypes that need a historic or gothic atmosphere, and it can add dramatic emphasis in short quotes or packaging accents when set at larger sizes.
The font conveys a medieval, gothic tone with a ceremonial and dramatic presence. Its pointed, ornate forms feel traditional and authoritative, leaning into a historical manuscript character that reads as intense and expressive rather than casual or contemporary.
The design appears intended to evoke traditional blackletter writing with a hand-rendered, pen-cut feel, balancing strong legibility in display sizes with ornamental bite. Its slanted stance and high-contrast construction emphasize movement and drama while preserving the structured, broken-stroke DNA of gothic lettering.
Texture is lively and slightly irregular in a hand-drawn way, with subtle variation in stroke endings and internal spaces that creates a dense, dark color in words. The italicized posture and broken-pen shaping produce strong directional flow, especially in mixed-case setting where capitals punctuate lines with weighty, decorative silhouettes.