Blackletter Ehly 2 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: titles, headlines, posters, book covers, logos, medieval, dramatic, gothic, ceremonial, storybook, historic flavor, thematic mood, hand-crafted, display impact, ornamental tone, angular, calligraphic, textura-like, broken strokes, spurred terminals.
A sharp, blackletter-inspired display face with compact proportions and a rhythmic pattern of broken strokes. Letterforms are built from angled, chiseled segments that suggest a broad-nib or pen-cut construction, with pointed joins, small wedge-like serifs, and occasional bulbous notches where strokes change direction. Curves are minimized into faceted arcs, and counters tend to be tight and irregular, creating dense internal texture. The alphabet shows purposeful, slightly hand-cut unevenness in stroke edges and terminals, while maintaining consistent vertical emphasis and a cohesive overall skeleton.
Best suited to short-to-medium display settings where its dense blackletter texture can carry mood: titles, headlines, posters, album art, book covers, and brand marks for historic or fantasy themes. It can work for brief passages or pull quotes when set generously, but it is most effective when used to establish atmosphere rather than for long-form body text.
The font conveys a medieval, ceremonial tone—evoking manuscripts, tavern signs, and fantasy ephemera. Its dark color and spiky silhouettes feel dramatic and a bit ominous, while the hand-wrought irregularities add a crafted, historical flavor rather than a purely mechanical gothic look.
The design appears intended to deliver an old-world, manuscript-adjacent voice with a hand-rendered edge—balancing recognizable blackletter structure with slightly roughened contours for character. Its consistent vertical cadence and angular construction aim to create a strong, iconic silhouette at display sizes while retaining a crafted, inked feel.
The capitals read as ornamented and authoritative, with more pronounced angular flourishes than the lowercase. Numerals follow the same faceted, calligraphic logic, keeping a unified texture across letters and figures. In text, the dense vertical rhythm can feel imposing, making spacing and size important for comfortable reading.