Blackletter Enpi 2 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, branding, packaging, album art, gothic, medieval, heraldic, ceremonial, traditional, historical tone, dramatic impact, display texture, traditional craft, angular, calligraphic, broken strokes, textura-like, ink-trap notches.
A blackletter display face with compact proportions, pointed joins, and faceted, broken-stroke construction. Strokes are heavy and crisply tapered, with small internal notches and wedge-like terminals that suggest broad-nib calligraphy translated into sharp vector forms. Curves are restrained and often resolved into angled shoulders, producing a rhythmic vertical texture in words. Capitals are more elaborate and sculpted than the lowercase, while numerals follow the same chiseled, gothic logic with distinctive bowls and hooks.
Best suited to short runs of text where texture and atmosphere matter: headlines, mastheads, posters, labels, and identity marks. It can also work for themed materials such as events, editorial openers, or title treatments where a historic or gothic voice is desired.
The overall tone feels historic and formal, evoking manuscripts, crests, and traditional print ephemera. Its dense, dark color and angular detailing create a dramatic, authoritative presence that reads as ceremonial rather than casual.
The design appears intended to deliver a traditional blackletter voice with strong texture and high visual impact, prioritizing ornamental rhythm and period character over long-form readability. Its consistent broken-stroke grammar and sculpted capitals suggest a focus on display typography that signals heritage and formality.
In text settings, the face builds a strong vertical cadence with pronounced stems and tight counters, making it visually striking but inherently dense. The glyphs maintain consistent blackletter conventions across cases, with recognizable forms for common pangram characters and numerals that harmonize with the letterforms.