Blackletter Tasa 6 is a bold, very narrow, very high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: album covers, posters, headlines, branding, certificates, gothic, medieval, ceremonial, authoritative, dramatic, historical flavor, dramatic display, formal tone, ornamental texture, angular, fractured, spiky, calligraphic, ornate.
A dense, tightly set blackletter with sharply broken strokes, pointed terminals, and strong vertical emphasis. Letterforms are built from narrow, upright stems with crisp, faceted joins and small wedge-like serifs that create a chiseled, cut-from-metal feel. Capitals are ornate and compact with pronounced internal angles, while lowercase forms maintain a rhythmic, vertical texture with minimal roundness and distinctive fractured bowls. Numerals and punctuation follow the same pointed, calligraphic construction, keeping the overall color dark and consistent in text.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as album art, event posters, mastheads, packaging marks, and gothic-themed branding. It can also work for certificates, invitations, or period-flavored titles where historic gravitas is desired, while long passages will read best at larger sizes with generous line spacing.
The font conveys a traditional gothic tone with a formal, heraldic presence. Its sharp geometry and compact texture feel ceremonial and historic, with an intense, dramatic voice suited to emphatic statements rather than casual reading.
The design appears intended to recreate a classic blackletter voice with an assertive, compact texture and ornamental capitals, emphasizing dramatic vertical rhythm and carved, angular detailing for strong display impact.
In running text, the tight spacing and dense vertical pattern produce a strong “black” texture typical of display blackletter, where word shapes become highly patterned. The contrast between thick main strokes and hairline cuts is used to carve counters and add decorative bite at corners and terminals.