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Is all-caps blackletter no longer taboo?
You can't use tattoo art as a reference. Tattoo art often fails to follow any rhyme or reasoning. It's always a one-off and created with the intention of a very narrow audience, not broader viewing. (...
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Is all-caps blackletter no longer taboo?
Received typographic wisdom holds that Blackletter ("Old English", "Gothic") text only looks good in lower case or with initial capitalization — never with capital letters in series
If you ask me (...
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Is there a Fraktur font that is thin like Helvetica Neue Light?
By far the thinnest historical fraktur I am aware of is Elfen-Fraktur (literally elf fraktur). A digitalisation is available here:
Astloch (literally knothole) is a recently designed blackletter font,...
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Why does this 'w' join at the top?
That type of broken lower case w design is not unknown in gothic/black letter scripts. Not going to say it's common, but it's not hard to find other examples.
For example here are a few I found on ...
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Is there a Fraktur font that is thin like Helvetica Neue Light?
I have no knowledge of, nor have I ever been able to find, a truly light or thin Fraktur font. These are some of the pretty lightweights that I've found:
Kabinett-Fraktur Regular (aka Fraktur Mager) ...
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Free, screen-suited roman font to match Unifraktur Maguntia
First off, nice blackletter font, I can tell that you've spent a long time developing and enhancing it. So, let's try and identify a solution to your font-pairing problem.
I think the first thing is ...
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Is there a Fraktur font that is thin like Helvetica Neue Light?
I am the designer of Dequindre, a font mentioned in one of the other answers. I'll be releasing it soon (I neglected it as I was finishing up my MFA).
It will contain a historical long s and a number ...
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