Blackletter Kojo 17 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: logotypes, posters, headlines, album art, packaging, gothic, medieval, heraldic, dramatic, stern, period evoke, high impact, ornamental display, authority, angular, spiky, calligraphic, chiseled, compact.
A compact, angular blackletter with broken strokes and sharply notched terminals. Vertical stems dominate, with faceted corners, tight counters, and occasional wedge-like flicks that suggest a pen-and-broad-nib construction translated into crisp, chiseled forms. Capitals are tall and assertive with ornamental internal cuts and pointed shoulders, while lowercase maintains a restrained rhythm and a relatively small x-height against prominent ascenders. Numerals follow the same fractured, gothic construction, keeping a consistent dark color and textured word shape in lines of text.
Well-suited to display settings such as mastheads, logotypes, posters, titles, and packaging that call for a historic or gothic voice. It can work for short blocks of text when set generously, but its dense texture and sharp detail favor larger sizes and selective emphasis over long-form reading.
The font communicates a traditional, Old World tone—formal, stern, and ceremonial—with a hint of menace due to its sharp edges and dense texture. It evokes manuscripts, heraldry, and historic signage, making text feel weighty and authoritative.
The design appears intended to deliver a classic blackletter presence with crisp, carved-looking details and a compact footprint, aiming for strong impact and period character in modern display use.
Letterforms keep a strong vertical emphasis and a tight overall spacing impression, producing a pronounced blackletter “woven” texture in paragraphs. The broken joins and inward notches create distinctive silhouettes that read best at larger sizes, where the internal cuts and angular details remain clear.