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Blood + Saltriver Grotesk
Lets Blood own the focal silhouette while handling secondary copy, sizing and subheads cleanly.
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Tall irregular horror capitals with thin hanging drips and mixed colours
Blood
Blood is a decorative horror set in which narrow upright letters keep soft corners, thin drips hang unevenly from the lower edges and the words are drawn in mixed dark reds, greens and violets, so a heading reads as lettering running down a page.
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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 Blood.
The B closes two narrow bowls inside a tall silhouette, the O keeps a tall narrow counter against a broad outer bowl, the D and F carry thin hanging drips at different lengths and the colours shift between words rather than within them. The drips are the defining detail, which is why the sample leaves a clear band beneath the heading instead of crowding another line against it. Because the drips are thin, the face wants 34 pt before they read and tips under 3 mm fill in on a screen; the multi-colour look is a palette choice, not automatic layers. The book mockup is artwork; the dripping letters are the face.
Horror · Dripping · Irregular
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Blood with grounded secondary typography.
Structured Secondary Voice
Blood + The Simple Editorial
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 Blood’s stroke geometry.
Cover for a horror paperback
The drips set the genre, and the tall narrow letters keep a two-word title readable at 80 pt with a clear band left beneath them.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print an A5 cover: set the title at 80 pt across the upper third, keep 24 mm of clear cover beneath the longest drip, and set the author at 10 pt in a caps at the foot.
Pre-production check
A subtitle set under the drips reads as part of the title; check the cover and keep 22 mm of clear ground below the block.
Tee print for a haunted house
The tall forms hold on fabric, and the heavy silhouettes stay solid at 70 mm across a printed chest in two flat inks on cotton.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 280 mm chest print: set the title at 70 mm, keep every drip at 4 mm wide minimum, and keep 45 mm of clear shirt beneath the drips for the address line.
Pre-production check
Thin drips break in a screen print; check the film at full size and thicken the drip rather than the letter.
Sticker for a party cup
The narrow shapes cut into a simple sticker, and the drips stay whole at 28 mm on a shaped die laid over a pale backing sheet.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 50 mm shaped sticker: set the word at 28 mm, keep 4 mm of clear vinyl beyond the longest drip, and keep 6 mm between the drips so the die cuts stay separate.
Pre-production check
Two drips closer than 5 mm share a cut line; check the sheet and open the spacing by 2 mm before cutting.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Decorative · Tall irregular horror capitals with thin hanging drips and mixed colours
- Foundry / creator
- ProFonts
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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