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Black Raven + Cultivo
Lets Black Raven own the focal silhouette while handling secondary copy, sizing and subheads cleanly.
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Solid blackletter with angular B and R bowls and pointed feet
Black Raven
Black Raven is a bold blackletter display face with wide stems, tight spacing and a flat black contour, drawn to print solid at large sizes on a light ground.
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Cutting, print & workflow scorecard.
Sturdy stroke walls and open counters weed cleanly on adhesive vinyl, HTV apparel film, and cut cardstock.
Plotter & output verdictEasy-Weed Vinyl & Print Ready
Recommended minimum scale0.75 in+ cap height
Character set & structureUppercase, Lowercase & Numerals
OpenType & PUA accessStandard Latin, Figures & Punctuation
Best surfaces & mediaWedding Suites · Foil Envelopes · Boutique Logos
Compatible design toolsIllustrator · Affinity · Canva Pro · Cricut & Silhouette
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Black Raven.
BLACK RAVEN fills the middle of an aged parchment card in solid black, and the letters are the heavy end of the blackletter range: the stems are thick bars, the shoulders square off into sharp corners, and the feet end in flat diamonds. The word is set in mixed case with large capitals, so the rhythm is that of a masthead rather than a book title. A fine double rule with a central fleuron divides the title from a line of spaced caps that describes the face and names the uses, and two outlined capitals sit at the lower corners as ornaments. A drawn raven stands at the foot of the card. The lettering is legible at a distance because the counters stay open, which is what separates it from a textura, and it prints cleanly because there is no texture in the fill.
Solid blackletter with angular B and R bowls and pointed feet
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Black Raven with grounded secondary typography.
Structured Secondary Voice
Black Raven + Bulgary
Grounds bold display lettering with classic typographic authority on posters, badges and apparel.
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Black Raven’s stroke geometry.
Title page for a gothic anthology
The clean heavy contour holds at a small book trim, and the wide capitals give a plain title page the weight of a printed plate.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 152 by 229 mm title page: set the title at 40 pt across one row, keep 30 mm of clear ground beneath before the imprint at 9 pt, and hold 20 mm of margin left and right of the block.
Pre-production check
Dense black fills go glossy on coated paper; print one page on the intended stock and check the counters before the run.
Sign for a raven-themed event
The lettering sets the tone of the evening, and the heavy strokes stay readable at the door of a dim venue on a wet November night.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 600 by 400 mm sign: set the event name at 90 pt across two rows, keep 26 mm of clear ground beneath before the times at 14 pt, and hold 26 mm of border on all four sides.
Pre-production check
Painted signs thicken the fine joins; print one sign on the intended material and check the diamonds at the feet.
Label for a barrel-aged dark ale
The face gives a bottle a period character, and the wide letters keep a short brewery name heavy enough to read on a crowded shelf.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 65 by 100 mm label: set the brewery name at 22 pt on one row, keep 8 mm of clear ground beneath before the strength at 5 pt, and hold 6 mm from the lowest diamond to the die line.
Pre-production check
Small labels close the counters; print one label on the real stock and check the e and the o before the batch.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Decorative · Solid blackletter with angular B and R bowls and pointed feet
- Foundry / creator
- Bundle
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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