Blackletter Enze 1 is a bold, narrow, low contrast, italic, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, packaging, apparel, gothic, vintage, rebellious, dramatic, energetic, impact, heritage, attitude, signage, angular, chiseled, inked, faceted, condensed.
A condensed, forward-leaning display face with heavy strokes and sharply faceted terminals. Letterforms are built from angular, chisel-like cuts and beveled joins, giving many counters a polygonal feel rather than smooth curves. Stems and diagonals stay sturdy with minimal modulation, while pointed spurs and clipped corners create a crisp, aggressive rhythm. The lowercase is compact with a high x-height relative to ascenders, and the overall texture is dense and dark, especially in all-caps settings.
Best suited to display applications such as headlines, posters, band or event branding, and bold packaging callouts where the dense texture and angular detailing can be appreciated. It can also work for logos and apparel graphics that want a gothic or vintage edge, but it is less appropriate for long-form text or small UI sizes due to its tight spacing and strong stylization.
The font projects a gothic, old-world energy with a modern edge—part medieval signage, part loud headline attitude. Its sharp corners and emphatic weight read as assertive and slightly rebellious, lending a dramatic, high-impact tone to short phrases and names.
The design appears intended to evoke blackletter-inspired signage while simplifying it into a heavier, more graphic, slanted silhouette. Its goal is high impact and recognizability—delivering a cohesive, sharp-edged voice for branding and attention-grabbing titles.
The italic slant and tight sidebearings increase pace and urgency, while the consistent use of beveled terminals keeps the style cohesive across caps, lowercase, and numerals. Numerals follow the same angular construction, matching the letterforms for cohesive titling and poster work.