Blackletter Mify 1 is a regular weight, narrow, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album covers, book titles, branding, medieval, gothic, heraldic, solemn, dramatic, historical evoke, dramatic tone, manuscript texture, display impact, angular, chiseled, calligraphic, spiky, textura-like.
A compact blackletter with tall, narrow proportions and a strongly vertical rhythm. Strokes are mostly monoline in feel, with pointed joins and faceted, chisel-like terminals that create a crisp, angular silhouette. Curves are minimized into broken arcs and straight segments, producing squared counters and sharp interior corners, while ascenders and capitals show restrained ornamental hooks and wedges. The lowercase maintains a consistent, disciplined texture, and the numerals echo the same cut, Gothic construction with rigid shoulders and angular bowls.
Best suited for display typography where the Gothic texture can be appreciated: posters, headlines, album or game titles, packaging, and branding that wants a historical or ceremonial voice. It also works well for short passages like pull quotes or section headers where its dense rhythm adds atmosphere without taxing readability.
The font conveys a medieval, ceremonial tone—dark, formal, and tradition-heavy. Its sharp edges and tightly packed texture evoke manuscript lettering, guild marks, and old-world signage, lending an authoritative and slightly forbidding character.
The design appears intended to deliver a classic blackletter presence with a disciplined, narrow build and consistent stroke treatment, prioritizing a strong medieval texture and crisp, carved-looking terminals. It aims for recognizable manuscript-inspired forms while staying relatively clean and uniform for modern display use.
In text, the dense vertical pattern is prominent and can create a strong “woven” page color, especially in sequences of straight-stem letters. Distinctive pointed terminals and broken-round forms help preserve the Gothic flavor across both uppercase and lowercase, though the overall impression favors display settings over extended reading at small sizes.