Blackletter Asme 1 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, titles, headlines, album art, packaging, medieval, gothic, ceremonial, dramatic, traditional, period evocation, display impact, ornamentation, heritage tone, angular, ornate, calligraphic, inked, spurred.
A sharp, blackletter-style design with compact lowercase proportions and a pronounced cap presence. Strokes are built from chiseled, calligraphic forms with pointed terminals, wedge-like serifs, and frequent spur details that create a jagged rhythm along stems and joins. Counters tend to be narrow and partly enclosed, producing dense silhouettes, while bowls and diagonals show faceted curves rather than smooth geometry. Uppercase letters are more decorated, with broken strokes, interior cuts, and occasional flourish-like hooks that add visual complexity and uneven texture.
This font is best suited to display settings where its texture and ornament can carry the mood—posters, titles, headlines, and branding elements that lean historic or gothic. It can also work for short passages or pull quotes at larger sizes, where the tight counters and dense color have room to breathe.
The font conveys a distinctly medieval and ceremonial tone, evoking manuscript lettering and old-world signage. Its sharp edges and dark color feel authoritative and dramatic, with a slightly rugged, hand-inked character that reads as traditional rather than polished-modern.
The design appears intended to capture classic blackletter ambience with a hand-rendered edge, combining decorative capitals with a more repeatable lowercase for set text. Its emphasis on pointed terminals, narrow counters, and broken-stroke detailing suggests a goal of delivering strong period character and a bold, traditional presence.
The uppercase set appears more expressive and irregular than the lowercase, which is comparatively restrained and text-oriented. Numerals share the same angular, incised construction and sit comfortably alongside the letters, maintaining a consistent dark color and pointed terminal language.