Blackletter Opgi 7 is a bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, branding, logotypes, album covers, medieval, gothic, dramatic, ornate, heraldic, historical tone, dramatic display, ornamental texture, heraldic impact, angular, faceted, chiseled, calligraphic, spiky.
A compact, blackletter-inspired design with heavy, faceted strokes and crisp, angular joins. The letterforms show pronounced stroke modulation, with thick verticals and tapered, blade-like terminals that create sharp interior notches and tight counters. Curves are treated as segmented, sculpted forms rather than smooth bowls, giving many glyphs a chiseled, diamond-cut silhouette. Spacing and rhythm feel intentionally uneven in a traditional way, with dense texture and strong vertical emphasis across words and lines.
Best suited to display use such as posters, titles, packaging, and identity marks where a strong historical or gothic voice is desired. It works well for event branding (festivals, medieval fairs), entertainment contexts (metal, fantasy, horror), and editorial headlines where dense texture is a feature rather than a drawback.
The overall tone is historical and ceremonial, evoking manuscripts, heraldry, and old-world craft. Its high drama and dense color read as authoritative and theatrical, with an austere, gothic edge that can also feel ominous or mysterious depending on setting.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, traditional blackletter color with sharpened, sculptural details, prioritizing atmosphere and period character over neutral readability. Its consistent broken-stroke vocabulary suggests it’s built to create an unmistakable medieval imprint in short to medium-length text.
Uppercase forms are notably decorative and weighty, while lowercase maintains the same broken-stroke logic, producing a continuous dark band in text. Numerals adopt the same angular construction, helping mixed content retain a consistent medieval texture. At smaller sizes the tight counters and complex joins may visually fill in, while larger sizes showcase the crisp facets and terminal cuts.