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Graveborn + Cultivo
Creates crisp high-hierarchy contrast beneath Graveborn headlines across menus, websites and labels.
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Softly flared Gothic display with broad rounded lowercase
Graveborn
Graveborn is a gothic display face that mixes a blackletter skeleton with a sturdy serif, giving spiky terminals, a tall x-height and a weight heavy enough to sit on a dark 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 Graveborn.
GRAVEBORN runs across the frame in cream on a nearly black ground, the letters tall and narrow with pointed feet on the stems and a few diagonal spurs where a blackletter pen would turn. The G and the R carry small hooked terminals, the B has a doubled bowl, and the O is a flat-sided circle, so the word reads as gothic without becoming unreadable to anyone who does not know the style. Behind the type a stone arch with a cross hangs in the dark, smoke drifts across the lower half, and a thin ornamented rule frames the whole card. Two small lines under the word name the style and the character set in a serif that is quieter than the display face, and that contrast is doing a lot of work: the display line is ornament, the supporting lines are information. It is a metal, tattoo and horror poster face, and it needs size; at 18 pt the stems close up and the spurs read as smudges.
Softly flared Gothic display with broad rounded lowercase
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Graveborn with grounded secondary typography.
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Graveborn + Rainbow Fabrica
Adds a warm human signature touch for 1-to-3-word callouts without competing against structured serif capitals.
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Graveborn’s stroke geometry.
Poster for a horror film night
The lettering sets the genre before anyone reads the title, and the heavy cream strokes stay readable across a dim room without a printed illustration behind them.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print an A2 poster: set the film title at 120 pt across two rows, keep 30 mm of clear ground beneath before the time and venue at 12 pt, and hold 24 mm of margin so the spiked feet are not cut.
Pre-production check
Spurs on the R and G fill in below 30 pt; print one copy at the final size and check the word from three metres before the run.
Label for a small batch of stout
The face gives a bottle a shelf presence that a plain serif cannot, and the narrow stems keep a long brewery name inside a wrap label.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 70 by 110 mm label: set the brewery name at 22 pt on one row, keep 8 mm of clear ground beneath before the style line at 5 pt, and hold 6 mm at each end where the label curves away.
Pre-production check
Cream ink on dark stock looks grey until it dries; print a label on the real paper and compare the tone before the batch.
Cover for a dark fiction anthology
The gothic forms signal the contents without a picture, and the depth of the strokes holds a cover line over a photograph of smoke or stone.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 135 by 216 mm book cover: set the anthology title at 60 pt across two rows, keep 22 mm of clear ground beneath before the editor credit at 8 pt, and hold 15 mm from the lowest spur to the trim.
Pre-production check
Dark covers scuff at the corners; print one cover and rub the edge before the print run is signed off.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Serif · Softly flared Gothic display with broad rounded lowercase
- Foundry / creator
- T.D. House
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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