Blackletter Miba 3 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, packaging, editorial, medieval, gothic, solemn, authoritative, ritual, historic flavor, dramatic display, compact impact, heraldic tone, manuscript echo, angular, faceted, black tone, compressed, spiky.
A tightly compressed blackletter with tall, vertical proportions and a strongly rectilinear skeleton. Strokes break into faceted segments with sharp corners, pointed terminals, and narrow counters that create a dense, dark texture on the line. The rhythm is driven by repeated vertical stems and wedge-like joins, with occasional diagonal cuts and small interior notches that emphasize the fractured, chiseled look. Capitals are upright and architectural, while lowercase forms maintain consistent verticality and compact spacing, producing a continuous, armored band of text.
Best suited to display work where the gothic character can be appreciated: titles, mastheads, posters, branding marks, and packaging with a historical or dramatic theme. It can also work for short editorial callouts or chapter openers when set with extra spacing to preserve legibility.
The overall tone is medieval and ceremonial, evoking manuscripts, heraldry, and institutional gravitas. Its sharp, blade-like detailing reads as intense and commanding, with a traditional gothic severity rather than a casual handwritten feel. The dense color and narrow openings add a sense of mystery and formality.
The design appears intended to deliver a classic blackletter voice in a compact, high-impact silhouette, maximizing vertical presence and dark color for bold display typography. Its consistent angular construction suggests a deliberate aim for a crisp, carved aesthetic that remains coherent across caps, lowercase, and numerals.
Numerals follow the same angular logic, with straight spines, clipped corners, and pointed joins that keep them visually aligned with the letterforms. At text sizes the tight counters and strong vertical repetition create a heavy texture, so it benefits from generous tracking and careful line spacing in longer settings.