Blackletter Ehji 3 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, album art, book titles, medieval, gothic, dramatic, ritual, storybook, historical evocation, dramatic impact, handmade texture, display emphasis, calligraphic, angular, textura-like, broken strokes, spurred serifs.
This face presents a calligraphic blackletter structure with broken, angular strokes and pointed terminals. Forms are slightly slanted with a lively, hand-drawn rhythm, showing subtle irregularities in stroke edges that read as pen-driven rather than mechanically uniform. Capitals are ornate and weighty with sharp internal notches and occasional flourish-like spurs, while lowercase maintains compact counters and tightly folded bowls typical of blackletter construction. Numerals echo the same chiseled, inked character, with emphasized hooks and tapered joins that keep the set visually cohesive.
Best suited for display typography where the blackletter texture can be appreciated—titles, headlines, posters, branding marks, and short emphatic lines. It can also work for themed materials such as historical, fantasy, or gothic packaging and event collateral, where atmosphere matters more than continuous-text readability.
The overall tone is gothic and theatrical, evoking medieval manuscripts and old-world signage. Its sharpness and textured stroke edges create a dramatic, slightly ominous mood, while the hand-made slant adds energy and personality rather than strict formality.
The design appears intended to deliver a manuscript-inspired blackletter voice with a more personal, hand-rendered cadence. By combining sharp, broken forms with slight slant and textured edges, it aims to feel historical and expressive while remaining cohesive across capitals, lowercase, and figures.
In running text, the dense blackletter texture becomes prominent, with uppercase forms commanding attention and lowercase details contributing to a patterned, woven rhythm. The most distinctive impression comes from the combination of pointed terminals, fractured curves, and ink-like edge variation, which together produce a strong “inked” presence at display sizes.