Blackletter font: Symbols + Numbers

Yes, yes I know if you look up close the font is not perfect, but if I literally sit here and try to perfect all three fonts (the mom font, the dad font and then the final hybrid font), I will be here till Feb. 2011. I just needed these quick yet satisfactory mom and dad fonts to give me a nice and crisp Hybrid font.

This is the last of my blackletter font! next up is my San-serif font (dad font)

Blackletter font: Lowercase

Digitized the smaller case of my blackletter font, it's a long and tedious task since my mom and dad font aren't going to be downloaded in the end and I can just present them as sketches, but I wanted to do this, to get the hybrid right the first time! and it's coming along slowly but surely!

Blackletter Fonts

I found a few blackletter fonts online for free and also using the existing Lucida Blackletter which is pre-installed with the CS4 suite. So here they are...

Cloister Black by Dieter Steffmann_www.steffmann.de_

Bertholdr Mainzer Franktur by Peter Wiegel_www.peter-wiegel.de

There seems to be a problem with the lowercase 's' in this type, as it looks exactly like the lowercase 'f'.

Proclamate (light) by Paul Lloyd_moorstation.org/typeoasis/designers/lloyd/

This font looks very much like Bertholdr, but there is a small case 's' here unlike Bertholdr.

Lucida Blackletter by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes

Goeschen Fraktur by Peter Wiegel

Each blackletter font has its own beauty with the slender curves and gorgeous serifs.... it's just the matter of experimenting with them now...