Blackletter Etne 1 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, titles, headlines, branding, packaging, medieval, dramatic, edgy, occult, gothic, evoke heritage, create tension, add drama, signal fantasy, angular, spiky, chiseled, faceted, calligraphic.
A sharply angled, faceted display face with a pronounced forward slant and chiseled, wedge-like terminals. Strokes show strong thick–thin behavior with abrupt joins, creating a cut-paper or carved-ink feel rather than smooth curves. Counters are tight and often polygonal, and many glyphs resolve into pointed tips and hard corners that keep the texture lively and broken up. Proportions lean tall and compact, with condensed capitals and a rhythmic, slightly irregular handwritten consistency across the alphabet and numerals.
Best suited to short, attention-grabbing settings such as posters, game or film titles, album artwork, logos, and thematic packaging where a gothic or historical mood is desired. It can also work for pull quotes or chapter heads, but the dense angular detail favors larger sizes and brief lines over continuous reading.
The overall tone feels medieval and theatrical, with an aggressive, blade-edged energy that reads as gothic and ritualistic. Its sharpness and slanted motion add urgency and drama, evoking fantasy titles, dark folklore, and heavy-metal or horror-adjacent aesthetics.
The design appears intended to reinterpret blackletter structure through a more hand-cut, knife-edged approach, emphasizing motion, contrast, and sharp silhouettes. It prioritizes atmosphere and impact, delivering a stylized medieval voice that remains coherent across cases and figures.
Uppercase forms present strong, emblem-like silhouettes, while lowercase maintains the same angular logic for a cohesive text color in short settings. Numerals follow the same faceted construction, with especially pointed diagonals and prominent notches that reinforce the carved character.