Blackletter Poba 2 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: mastheads, posters, album covers, tattoo style, packaging, medieval, gothic, dramatic, authoritative, ritualistic, heritage tone, dramatic display, historic flavor, dense texture, angular, broken strokes, diamond terminals, spiky, ornate.
A heavy blackletter with compact proportions and broken, angular stroke construction. Forms are built from straight segments and sharp joins, with frequent wedge- and diamond-like terminals that create a serrated silhouette. Counters are tight and often pinched, while verticals dominate the texture, producing a dense, rhythmic “picket fence” pattern in text. Capitals are more ornamental and irregularly contoured than the lowercase, with pronounced notches and internal cuts that reinforce the carved, faceted look.
Best suited to display roles such as mastheads, posters, titles, and short emphatic phrases where the blackletter texture is a feature. It can also work well for themed packaging, apparel graphics, and entertainment branding that aims for a historical, occult, or metal-adjacent atmosphere.
The overall tone is medieval and ceremonial, evoking manuscripts, heraldry, and old-world authority. Its dense color and sharp detailing feel dramatic and solemn, with a slightly aggressive edge suited to high-impact statements rather than casual reading.
The design appears intended to deliver a classic blackletter voice with bold presence, using angular broken strokes and sharp terminals to create a dense, traditional texture that reads as historic and authoritative.
In continuous setting the strong vertical rhythm and small counters can reduce readability at smaller sizes, while larger sizes reveal the distinctive terminals and broken-stroke detailing. Numerals follow the same blackletter construction, maintaining the dark, cohesive texture across mixed text and figures.