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Untitled Blackletter Script (in progress)

Skills

type design
font engineering
calligraphy

tools

glyphs

year

ongoing

This typeface-in-progress, a (semi)connected blackletter script, was inspired by some lettering I did in the fall of 2023. Now it has snowballed into a beast of a project, but I’m learning so much! (P.S. if anyone has name suggestions, please send them to @elliscarsonjones on Instagram. If I pick yours, I’ll send you a free license when I release it!)

Working on this face has forced me to learn so much more OpenType feature writing than I ever knew existed. But now Contextual Alternates and I are best friends :)

And of course it’s a variable font, too.

Process

Original lettering that inspired this typeface, plus calligraphic tests of what the capitals might look like.