Neutral Sans Workhorse
Blade Gothic + Monure
Lets Blade Gothic own the focal silhouette while handling secondary copy, sizing and subheads cleanly.
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Sharp angular blackletter with fractured serifs and kept lowercase counters
Blade Gothic
Blade Gothic is a blackletter display in which the strokes break into sharp angles, the serifs fracture and the vertical rhythm stays clean, so a title reads as medieval lettering that still resolves at headline scale.
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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 & mediaSeasonal Apparel · Mug Wraps · Holiday Gift Tags
Compatible design toolsIllustrator · Affinity · Canva Pro · Cricut & Silhouette
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Blade Gothic.
The B stacks two angular bows, the l raises a straight shaft, the a keeps an open counter inside a fractured bowl and the t crosses with a flat bar, all at a heavy weight with crisp cuts at every junction. The retained counters are the character: unlike extreme metal faces the letters stay readable, which is why the sample stacks two rows on a dark ground. Because the cuts are thin, the face wants 30 pt before the fractures print cleanly, and it works best as a short headline rather than a paragraph. The dark field and the small caption are presentation; the sharp blackletter rows are the face.
Blackletter · Angular · Readable
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Blade Gothic with grounded secondary typography.
Structured Secondary Voice
Blade Gothic + Cervelique
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 Blade Gothic’s stroke geometry.
Poster for a dark fantasy night
The fractured lettering sets the genre instantly, and the retained counters keep a two-word title readable at 80 pt on a printed poster from across a room.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print an A2 poster: set the title at 80 pt on two rows, keep 22 mm of clear ground beneath the block for the date and venue, and keep 30 mm of border so the sharp serifs are not trimmed.
Pre-production check
Thin fractures printed at 24 pt fill in on uncoated stock; check the poster proof and keep the title at 60 pt or above on that paper.
Tee print for a metal night
The angular strokes hold on fabric, and the heavy verticals stay solid at 70 mm across a printed chest where a thinner blackletter would break up in the screen.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 280 mm chest print: set the band name at 70 mm, keep every fracture at 1.5 mm minimum, and keep 45 mm of clear shirt beneath for the tour dates in a plain face.
Pre-production check
A fracture under 1 mm fills in with ink; check the film at full size and thicken the cut rather than shrinking the word.
Section head for a fantasy anthology
The medieval weight suits a fiction section, and the clean verticals keep a three-word title readable at 34 pt above the story text across a printed page.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 130 mm column: set the section head at 34 pt, set the author line at 10 pt in a serif beneath it, and keep 12 mm of clear ground above the first paragraph so the sharp serifs do not touch the text.
Pre-production check
A blackletter head set tight over body text looks like a smudge; check the spread and keep 10 mm of air beneath the block.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Decorative · Sharp angular blackletter with fractured serifs and kept lowercase counters
- Foundry / creator
- BILLI
- File formats mentioned
- OTF
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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