Blackletter Jema 10 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, album art, packaging, medieval, gothic, ceremonial, intense, authoritative, historical flavor, dramatic display, ornamental impact, thematic branding, angular, broken strokes, faceted, spiky serifs, dense texture.
This typeface uses a broken-stroke construction with angular, faceted curves and pronounced pointed terminals. Letterforms are built from sturdy verticals and sharp diagonal joins, creating a compact, dark page color with frequent interior notches and wedge-like serifs. Capitals are highly stylized with distinctive hooks and split strokes, while lowercase keeps a consistent, rhythmic cadence through repeated vertical stems and tight counters. Numerals follow the same cut, calligraphic logic, with narrow forms and crisp, tapering endings.
Best suited to display use such as posters, headlines, branding marks, and short titling where its ornate structure can be appreciated. It works well for fantasy, historical, or gothic-themed projects—album covers, game titles, event flyers, packaging, and label-style graphics. For longer passages, larger sizes and generous tracking help maintain readability.
The overall tone is medieval and ceremonial, evoking manuscript lettering, heraldic inscriptions, and old-world proclamations. Its sharp joins and dense texture feel forceful and dramatic, leaning more ominous and severe than friendly or casual. The style reads as traditional and ritualistic, with a strong historical atmosphere.
The font appears intended to reinterpret traditional manuscript and inscriptional letterforms into a consistent, modern digital set with strong texture and dramatic presence. Its emphasis on sharp terminals, broken strokes, and decorative capitals suggests a focus on atmosphere and identity over neutral, everyday reading.
The design produces strong texture in lines of text, where repeated verticals and broken curves create a woven, patterned effect. Many characters feature distinctive spur-like terminals and internal cuts that increase visual interest but can reduce clarity at small sizes. The capital set is especially decorative and tends to command attention in headlines and initials.