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Nightmare Gothic + Noar
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Fine uppercase serifs with blade-like points and a diamond separator
Nightmare Gothic
Nightmare is a refined display serif with very wide capitals, high stroke contrast and small sharp spurs at the ends of the stems, set quiet and pale on a dark ground.
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Cutting, print & workflow scorecard.
Fine grain and micro-texture excel in 300 DPI print, sublimation, and screen print rather than small vinyl weeding.
Plotter & output verdictPrint, DTF & Sublimation First
Recommended minimum scalePrint any scale · Vinyl 2.2 in+
Character set & structureUppercase, Lowercase & Numerals
OpenType & PUA accessPUA Encoded
Best surfaces & mediaSeasonal Apparel · Mug Wraps · Holiday Gift Tags
Compatible design toolsCricut Design Space · Silhouette Studio · Canva Pro · Illustrator
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Nightmare Gothic.
NIGHTMARE spans the frame in a pale ivory on a near-black ground, and the letters are wide and elegant: thin horizontals, heavy stems, small unbracketed serifs and a flat-topped N that gives the word a cinematic feel. The contrast is high but not extreme, so the thin strokes survive at the sizes a poster is viewed from. Beneath the word a line of spaced caps in quotation marks carries a tagline, and lower still a block of tiny type names the style and credits the designer. There are no ornaments at all, which is what separates this face from the fantasy blackletters: the character comes from proportion and from the calm pale grey against the dark. It is a title cut for film posters, book covers and packaging, and it holds at a moderate size because the serifs are small and the counters are open.
Fine uppercase serifs with blade-like points and a diamond separator
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Nightmare Gothic with grounded secondary typography.
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Nightmare Gothic + Coastal Honey
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 Nightmare Gothic’s stroke geometry.
Cover for a psychological thriller
The wide capitals give a cover a cinematic title without a drawn image, and the high contrast holds at the thumbnail size a book is first seen at.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 135 by 216 mm cover: set the title at 66 pt across one row, keep 24 mm of clear ground beneath before the author at 12 pt, and hold 16 mm from the last letter to the trim.
Pre-production check
Hairline strokes drop out on uncoated paper; print one cover on the real stock and check the thin joins before the run.
Poster for a late-night screening
The restrained lettering reads as a film title rather than a seasonal novelty, and the pale grey on black holds in a dark foyer.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print an A2 poster: set the film title at 140 pt across one row, keep 34 mm of clear ground beneath before the time at 13 pt, and hold 24 mm of margin left and right of the word.
Pre-production check
Pale ink on dark stock looks grey until it dries; print one poster and compare the tone before the order.
Label for a small-batch gin
The quiet high-contrast serif reads as premium on a shelf of busy labels, and the wide capitals fill a short botanical name across the front.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 55 by 100 mm label: set the gin name at 22 pt on one row, keep 8 mm of clear ground beneath before the strength at 4.5 pt, and hold 6 mm from the widest stem to the label edge.
Pre-production check
Small labels close the thin joins; print one label on the real stock and check the serifs before the batch.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Serif · Fine uppercase serifs with blade-like points and a diamond separator
- Foundry / creator
- Rvq Type Foundry
- Glyph encoding
- PUA encoded — swashes & alternates open in Character Map (Windows) and Font Book (Mac)
- Glyph encoding
- PUA encoded for character-map access
Creator topic tags (50)
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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