Blackletter Lyfi 2 is a very bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, album covers, packaging, gothic, heraldic, medieval, dramatic, traditional, historic tone, display impact, heraldic flavor, dense texture, title emphasis, angular, spiky, faceted, chiseled, compact.
A compact blackletter with dense, vertical proportions and sharply faceted strokes. Forms are built from straight segments and crisp angles, with pointed terminals and wedge-like joins that create a chiseled, blade-cut silhouette. The rhythm is strongly columnar, with tight counters and narrow internal spaces that emphasize dark texture in words. Capitals feel taller and more architectural than the lowercase, while numerals follow the same angular construction for consistent color in mixed settings.
Best suited to display work—posters, headlines, mastheads, and branding where a historic or gothic mood is desired. It can also work for packaging and title treatments that benefit from a dense, high-impact word shape, especially at sizes large enough to preserve the internal cuts and angular details.
The overall tone is gothic and ceremonial, evoking manuscripts, heraldry, and old-world signage. Its dark, emphatic texture reads as authoritative and dramatic, with an austere, traditional character rather than playful ornament.
The design appears intended to deliver a traditional blackletter voice with a compact footprint and a strongly vertical, architectural rhythm. Its emphasis on sharp facets and dense texture suggests a focus on bold presence and period flavor in short text settings.
The set maintains a consistent sharpness across letters and figures, favoring rigid geometry over roundness. In continuous text the tight apertures and heavy black mass create strong impact, while the pointed details reward use at larger sizes where the inner cuts remain visible.