P22 and the International House of Fonts introduce two new Blackletter designs: P22 Sting and P22 Bastyan.
Blackletter is a general term for the type of calligraphic scripts used throughout Europe in the centuries pre-dating Gutenberg’s first printing. Today, these scripts are often perceived as antiquated and quaint yet signifying formality and importance. P22 has selected the designs of two IHOF designers, Michael Clark and Frau Jenson, to bring us two new type designs in the Blackletter tradition with unusual twists.
Designed by calligrapher Michael Clark, “P22 Sting” is a very stylized Blackletter lowercase with accompanying Roman Caps. It features two of Clark’s distinctive styles in one hybrid font. Alternate lowercase characters are also included for stylistic variations.
https://www.p22.com/ihof/sting.html
Designer Frau Jenson, from Germany, gives us “P22 Bastyan”, a hybrid Italic Blackletter. This typeface resembles Carolinian miniscule scripts and has a timelessness that evokes formality but defies specific historical categorization. It is available in an optional Opentype “Pro” version with expanded language support, multiple styles of figures, ornaments and ligatures.
https://www.p22.com/ihof/bastyan.html
If you are interested in more Blackletter styles, previous experimental variations from IHOF include:
A rather different take on an Italic Blackletter with Romanized Caps by Richard Kegler. “P22 Larkin” was based on lettering for the Larkin Compan circa 1900. https://www.p22.com/ihof/larkin.html
James Grieshaber’s “P22 Gothic Gothic” defies the purpose of the condensed nature of Blackletter and infuses a contemporary geometry to this Blacker than Black font. https://www.p22.com/ihof/gothic.html
“Schwartzkopf” from Gabor Kothay is a “Schwabacher” blackletter and perhaps the most authentic blackletter of all of the IHOF fonts. https://www.p22.com/ihof/schwarz.html
For more information: https://www.p22.com
This article was last modified on January 10, 2022
This article was first published on September 5, 2006
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