Blackletter Ofli 6 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album covers, headlines, logotypes, event flyers, gothic, aggressive, dramatic, medieval, rebellious, impact, edginess, modernized gothic, texture, attitude, angular, faceted, spiky, broken strokes, sharp terminals.
A sharply faceted blackletter display with a pronounced forward slant and chiseled, polygonal construction. Strokes break into hard planes with frequent notches and clipped corners, creating a fragmented rhythm rather than continuous curves. Counters are tight and irregular, and many joins appear deliberately split or separated, producing a high-impact, cut-metal silhouette. Proportions vary noticeably across glyphs, with condensed verticals and occasional wide, jagged bowls that emphasize a dynamic, uneven texture in words.
Best suited to short, high-contrast settings such as posters, album or merch graphics, editorial headlines, and branding marks that want an aggressive blackletter signal. It performs strongest at medium to large sizes where the faceting and internal breaks remain legible and contribute to the intended texture.
The tone is intense and combative, evoking medieval inscriptional forms filtered through a modern, aggressive edge. Its slanted, shard-like shapes read as urgent and loud, with a dark, heavy color that suggests metal, blades, and underground culture. Overall, it communicates drama and grit more than refinement or calm readability.
The design appears intended to reinterpret blackletter through a fractured, blade-cut aesthetic, prioritizing impact and attitude over continuous calligraphic flow. Its consistent angular vocabulary and right-leaning stance suggest a display face built to create a dense, edgy word shape that reads instantly as Gothic while feeling contemporary.
In text, the broken construction and tight apertures can cause letterforms to interlock visually, especially in dense lowercase sequences, increasing texture while reducing clarity at smaller sizes. Numerals and capitals share the same angular logic, helping headlines feel cohesive, though the deliberate irregularity keeps the line from looking mechanically uniform.