Blackletter Upba 9 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logos, packaging, certificates, medieval, dramatic, ceremonial, historic, ornate, historical flavor, display impact, ornamental caps, calligraphic texture, angular, calligraphic, textura-like, broken strokes, sharp terminals.
This typeface is a slanted blackletter with crisp, angular construction and pronounced thick–thin modulation. Strokes show a broad-pen logic, with faceted joins, sharp wedges, and broken curves that form tight inner counters and pointed apertures. Capitals are compact and ornamental, with spurred terminals and occasional internal cut-ins that create a chiseled silhouette. The lowercase maintains a steady rhythm but varies in stroke expansion and entry/exit treatment, giving a lively, hand-drawn cadence rather than a strictly mechanical texture.
Best suited to display contexts such as headlines, posters, wordmarks, labels, and period-themed packaging where texture and historical character are desirable. It can also work for short passages in invitations or certificates when set large enough to preserve interior detail and counter clarity.
The overall tone is medieval and ceremonial, evoking manuscripts, heraldic signage, and old-world formality. Its strong contrast and sharp geometry add drama and authority, while the italic slant lends motion and a slightly more personal, crafted feel.
The design appears intended to deliver a classic blackletter voice with a calligraphic, hand-cut energy: dense color, sharp terminals, and ornate capitals that create strong presence in display typography while retaining a coherent text rhythm.
Numerals follow the same blackletter logic, using wedge-like terminals and high-contrast strokes that keep them visually consistent with the letters. In text, the dark color and compact counters build a dense typographic “black” that reads as traditional and emphatic, especially at larger sizes.