Blackletter Agne 16 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logotypes, packaging, album covers, medieval, gothic, ceremonial, severe, traditional, historic voice, display impact, traditional authority, manuscript feel, angular, spiked, broken strokes, pointed terminals, calligraphic.
A compact blackletter design with broken, angular strokes and sharply pointed terminals. Vertical stems dominate, with tight internal spacing and a disciplined rhythm that keeps counters small and the overall texture dark and continuous. Stroke modulation is present but controlled, and many joins resolve into crisp wedges and diamond-like nicks rather than smooth curves. Capitals are ornate but coherent with the lowercase, using narrow proportions and consistent, chiseled detailing across the alphabet and figures.
Best suited to display settings such as headlines, posters, and identity work where its dense texture and pointed detailing can be appreciated. It also fits packaging and label-style applications that aim for historic, craft, or traditional cues, and works well for short emphatic phrases rather than long passages.
The tone is distinctly medieval and ceremonial, evoking manuscript headings, guild marks, and ecclesiastical or heraldic lettering. Its sharpness and dense color read as serious and authoritative, with an old-world gravity that can feel dramatic or ominous depending on context.
The design appears intended to deliver a historically grounded blackletter voice with a compact, disciplined rhythm and crisp, carved-looking terminals. It prioritizes strong texture and period character for display typography while keeping letterforms consistent enough to set short text samples cleanly.
In text, the compact set width and dark texture create a strong block of color; legibility benefits from generous tracking and larger sizes. Several letters share closely related silhouettes typical of blackletter, making careful spacing and context important for comfortable reading.