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Daemon Sickness + Taught
Lets Daemon Sickness own the focal silhouette while handling secondary copy, sizing and subheads cleanly.
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Jagged metal capitals with pointed horns and long outer blades
Daemon Sickness
Daemon Sickness is death metal lettering: letters fused into a single spiked mass, blade points rising above the line and long symmetric wings sweeping out to both sides.
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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 Daemon Sickness.
DAEMON over SICKNESS fills the frame in white on a dark scene of crosses, fire and a horned skull, and the two words are drawn as one emblem: the stems of neighbouring letters merge, the tops fork into blades, and the outer edges throw long curved wings that reach almost to the corners of the card. Behind the type a red glow and lightning give the composition depth, and the lettering itself stays flat white so it reads against the noise. Two lines of small type under the emblem name the style and the alternates, set in a plain sans. The face is a logo treatment first: the silhouette is a crest, and the letters resolve on a second look. It belongs on band art and merch, and it needs a black ground and a large size.
Jagged metal capitals with pointed horns and long outer blades
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Daemon Sickness with grounded secondary typography.
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Daemon Sickness + Aureline
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 Daemon Sickness’s stroke geometry.
Poster for a death metal night
The emblem reads as a band mark from the door, and the flat white letters hold against a busy dark scene where a textured face would vanish.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print an A2 poster: set the emblem at 340 mm wide across the upper half, keep 36 mm of clear ground beneath before the line-up at 12 pt, and hold 28 mm of margin from the wings to the trim.
Pre-production check
Thin blade spurs break on cheap stock; print one poster at the final size and check the tips before the run.
Jacket for a book on extreme music
The lettering is the subject, so the cover carries the emblem alone and lets a small caption block underneath explain the book.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 210 by 280 mm cover: set the emblem at 180 mm wide at the top, keep 30 mm of clear ground beneath before the title block at 12 pt, and hold 22 mm from the lowest blade to the bottom trim.
Pre-production check
Matte lamination dulls the fine points; print one cover with the finish applied and compare it with the signed proof before the run.
Merch for a metal festival
The mirrored emblem holds as a one-colour screen print, and the shape is recognisable even when the festival is unknown to the wearer.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 300 by 380 mm back print: set the emblem at 280 mm wide, keep 36 mm of clear ground beneath before the date line at 9 pt, and hold 30 mm from the wings to the print edge.
Pre-production check
Coarse mesh closes the narrow gaps between letters; print one pull on the actual shirt and check the counters.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Decorative · Jagged metal capitals with pointed horns and long outer blades
- Foundry / creator
- Denustudios
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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