Blackletter Revi 2 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, branding, album covers, packaging, medieval, dramatic, gothic, ceremonial, authoritative, historical evocation, thematic display, dramatic impact, ornamental texture, angular, textura-like, spiky, compact, rugged.
A compact blackletter with dense, blocky silhouettes and sharp, broken strokes. Letterforms rely on straight vertical stems, faceted corners, and pointed terminals, with small internal counters that tighten the texture in words. Curves are rendered as angular segments rather than smooth bowls, and joins often form crisp wedges that emphasize a chiseled, inked-by-hand feel. Lowercase shows a short, restrained x-height relative to prominent ascenders/descenders, while numerals follow the same fractured, ornamental logic for a consistent color across mixed content.
Best suited to display use such as posters, titles, mastheads, and logos where the dense blackletter texture can read clearly at larger sizes. It also fits themed branding for historic, fantasy, metal, or ceremonial contexts, and works well on packaging or labels when short phrases need a strong period character.
The font projects a medieval, ceremonial tone with strong gothic gravitas. Its heavy presence and prickly rhythm create an intense, historic atmosphere suited to dramatic or solemn messaging rather than casual or contemporary voice.
The design appears intended to evoke traditional manuscript blackletter through compressed proportions, broken strokes, and angular construction, prioritizing atmosphere and visual authority over long-form readability.
In text settings the tight spacing and small apertures create a dark, continuous texture that becomes more legible with generous size and line spacing. The uneven, slightly rugged edge treatment adds an intentionally handmade quality that reads as traditional and emphatic.