Outline Dogu 2 is a light, narrow, very high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, horror titles, game titles, gothic, hand-inked, spooky, antique, dramatic, atmosphere, distress, period feel, headline impact, edginess, blackletter, broken, angular, jagged, outlined.
An outlined, blackletter-inspired display face with irregular, hand-drawn contours and small nicks, waviness, and ink-like distortions along the edges. Letterforms are built from angular, faceted strokes with sharp corners and occasional notched terminals, while counters are mostly open and defined by the outer contour rather than filled strokes. Spacing and widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, creating a restless rhythm; numerals follow the same chiseled, outline-only construction and feel emblematic and compact.
Best suited to large-scale display settings where the jagged outline and blackletter structure can be appreciated—posters, title cards, album covers, game branding, and event flyers. It works particularly well when you want a gothic or horror-leaning voice, and is less appropriate for dense paragraphs or small UI text where the outline detail may compete with legibility.
The overall tone is medieval and haunted, evoking gothic signage, occult ephemera, and distressed print. Its rough outline and broken edges add a gritty, DIY energy that reads as eerie, theatrical, and slightly mischievous rather than refined.
The design appears intended to deliver a distressed blackletter look through outline-only construction, prioritizing atmosphere and silhouette over smooth, typographic regularity. Its uneven contours and faceted forms suggest a deliberate "aged print" or hand-inked effect aimed at bold, characterful headlines.
The outline thickness is not perfectly uniform, reinforcing the hand-rendered character; some joins and corners appear intentionally uneven, as if sketched or cut with a worn pen. At text sizes the open interiors and busy contours can reduce clarity, while at larger sizes the jagged silhouette becomes the main feature.