Blackletter Ukfe 2 is a bold, wide, very high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: mastheads, posters, album covers, packaging, certificates, gothic, medieval, ceremonial, authoritative, dramatic, historical evocation, dramatic display, ornate texture, traditional authority, angular, ornate, calligraphic, spurred, blackletter.
A dense, high-contrast blackletter with compact counters, sharp joins, and strong vertical emphasis. Strokes shift between heavy main stems and hairline internal cuts, with frequent triangular spurs and chiseled terminals that create a faceted, engraved look. Uppercase forms are highly decorative with layered internal strokes and occasional flourish-like swashes, while lowercase letters keep a tighter, more rhythmic texture with narrow apertures and pronounced broken curves. Numerals follow the same cut-and-spur construction, maintaining the angular, carved consistency across the set.
Best suited to display typography where its intricate blackletter construction can be appreciated—mastheads, headlines, posters, and cover art. It also works well for themed packaging, certificates, and branding that aims for a traditional, ceremonial, or gothic atmosphere.
The overall tone is formal and historic, projecting gravity and ceremony with a distinctly gothic edge. Its crisp, blade-like details and dark massing feel authoritative and dramatic, evoking manuscripts, proclamations, and traditional heraldic typography.
The design appears intended to deliver a classic blackletter voice with pronounced contrast and decorative capitals, balancing readable texture in the lowercase with dramatic, statement-making initials. Its consistent chiseled terminals and internal cuts suggest an aim for an engraved, old-world finish that remains coherent across letters and figures.
The texture is intentionally dark, and the fine internal counters and hairline cuts become a key part of the letterforms, especially at smaller sizes where detail may close up. Capitals are comparatively more ornamental than the lowercase, which reads as a steadier blackletter color for setting short passages or headings.