Blackletter Fihi 2 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, album covers, game titles, gothic, medieval, dramatic, ceremonial, ornate, historic flavor, display impact, atmosphere, authority, texture, angular, fractured, calligraphic, spiky, inked.
This typeface uses fractured, angular letterforms with sharp terminals and wedge-like joins, giving it a distinctly chiseled, calligraphic construction. Strokes show pronounced thick–thin modulation and brisk, blade-shaped serifs, with counters that are tight and often partially enclosed. The rhythm is vertical and compact, with relatively short lowercase bodies and prominent ascenders/descenders that create a strong up-and-down texture. Numerals and capitals share the same pointed, faceted language, maintaining consistent weight and edge treatment across the set.
This font is best suited to display work such as posters, headlines, branding marks, and title treatments where its dense blackletter texture can be appreciated. It works well for album covers, event graphics, packaging accents, or game/film titles that benefit from a medieval or gothic atmosphere. For longer text, it will be most effective when set large with generous spacing to preserve clarity.
The overall tone is gothic and ceremonial, evoking manuscript lettering, heraldic display, and old-world formality. Its spiked silhouettes and dense texture feel dramatic and authoritative, with a slightly ominous, theatrical edge that reads well in stylistic, atmosphere-forward contexts.
The design intention appears to be a faithful, display-oriented blackletter with strong calligraphic bite—prioritizing historical flavor, dramatic contrast, and an imposing texture over neutral readability. Its consistent angular vocabulary across caps, lowercase, and figures suggests it was drawn to create cohesive, high-impact typographic color in short bursts of text.
Many glyphs feature deliberate internal cuts and angled notches that emphasize a “broken” construction, producing a lively sparkle at larger sizes. The tight apertures and dense vertical patterning make the face feel more like a textured block than a smooth reading serif, especially in longer lines.