Blackletter Upze 10 is a regular weight, narrow, very high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: album art, posters, titles, branding, tattoo, gothic, dramatic, ominous, ritual, antique, evoke antiquity, create tension, add texture, display impact, dark branding, fractured, calligraphic, spiky, ornate, textura-like.
A condensed blackletter with extremely sharp, splintered terminals and pronounced thick–thin modulation. Stems are tall and narrow with broken, chiseled edges and occasional hairline flicks that feel like distressed pen lifts. Bowls and diagonals are built from rigid, angular strokes, while counters stay tight and vertical, creating a dense, rhythmic texture. Capitals are more elaborate and irregular, with asymmetric notches and hooked details that add visual bite without becoming overly flourished.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as album covers, event posters, game or film titles, and branding where a dark gothic voice is desired. It can also work for headings or pull quotes when ample size and spacing are available to preserve the sharp detail.
The overall tone is dark, theatrical, and archaic, evoking medieval manuscript energy filtered through a gritty, distressed aesthetic. Its jagged finishing strokes and narrow rhythm read as intense and ceremonial, leaning toward horror, metal, and occult-adjacent atmospheres rather than formal tradition.
The design appears intended to modernize a medieval blackletter foundation with aggressive, distressed calligraphic breakpoints, prioritizing mood, texture, and visual edge over neutral readability. It aims for a compact, towering silhouette that creates a continuous dark stripe in text lines while keeping individual letters highly characterful.
The texture stays consistently spiky across both cases, but widths fluctuate between letters, adding a hand-drawn, carved-in feel. Numerals echo the same contrast and pointed terminals, keeping the set stylistically unified in display contexts.