Blackletter Fipu 9 is a bold, normal width, very high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, logotypes, packaging, album covers, gothic, medieval, dramatic, ritual, ornate, historic evocation, display impact, dramatic tone, ornamented texture, fraktur-like, pointed, textura, spurred, decorative.
A blackletter-inspired display face with tall, narrow letterforms built from heavy vertical stems and finely tapered hairlines. The strokes show sharp terminals, angular joins, and small spur-like hooks that give many letters a slightly jagged, calligraphic finish. Counters are tight and often vertically pinched, creating dense dark texture and a strong rhythm of verticals, while bowls and diagonals are simplified into faceted, carved shapes. Uppercase forms read monolithic and architectural; lowercase maintains the same pointed construction with compact spacing and pronounced feet and beaks.
Best suited to short, prominent settings such as headlines, titles, posters, and branding marks where its textured blackletter color can be appreciated. It also fits thematic packaging and editorial display for historical, fantasy, or dark-romantic concepts, and works well for album/film titling and event graphics that want a strong gothic cue.
The overall tone is historic and ceremonial, evoking manuscripts, metalwork, and heraldic signage. Its crisp points and dense texture feel dramatic and authoritative, with an austere, old-world gravitas that reads as formal and slightly ominous.
The design appears intended to deliver an unmistakable blackletter flavor with high visual drama, combining traditional pointed construction with clean, consistent repetition of vertical strokes. Its emphasis on dense texture and sharp spurs suggests a focus on display impact over extended reading comfort.
In continuous text the vertical rhythm dominates, so word shapes become highly patterned; this can reduce quick readability at small sizes but increases visual impact. Figures and punctuation match the sharp, high-contrast construction and feel best when given ample size and leading.