Blackletter Lylo 18 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, album art, logos, packaging, gothic, medieval, ceremonial, severe, dramatic, historical tone, display impact, ornamental texture, authoritative voice, angular, spiky, broken, calligraphic, condensed.
A condensed blackletter with tall, columnar proportions and a strong vertical rhythm. Strokes are sharply faceted with pointed terminals and small wedge-like notches, producing a broken-stem feel and crisp internal corners. Capitals are narrow and architectural, while lowercase forms keep tight counters and compact joins; round letters are built from straightened, angular segments rather than true curves. Numerals follow the same compressed, chiseled construction, maintaining a consistent color and dense texture across lines of text.
Best suited for display settings such as headlines, posters, mastheads, branding marks, and packaging that benefit from a historic or gothic mood. It can also work for short quotations or title treatments in books, games, or event materials where decorative texture is desired over long-form readability.
The overall tone is historic and solemn, with an assertive, authoritative presence. Its sharp geometry and narrow stance evoke manuscript and inscriptional traditions, giving text a ceremonial, old-world seriousness with a slightly ominous edge.
The design appears intended to deliver a compact, high-impact blackletter voice with a disciplined vertical cadence and crisp, angular detailing, optimized for dramatic titles and emblematic wordmarks.
The texture is intentionally dense, and the tight apertures and pointed detailing make it most effective at moderate-to-large sizes where the interior cuts and spur-like terminals remain clear. Word shapes stay uniform and rhythmic due to the repeated vertical strokes, creating a strongly patterned page color.