Litteratra
Karsten Lücke · Karsten Lücke · 2001
blackletterbastardaitalic
A bastarda text face, named for the Latin littera atra, or dark letter, that won a TDC competition in 2001.
About
Litteratra combines fraktur's darkness with roman construction, using italic lowercase alongside roman uppercase in a nod to early italic printing conventions. It was among the first Latin OpenType fonts to lean heavily on contextual positioning, and packs small caps, spaced and titling uppercase, multiple figure sets and ligatures into what Lücke calls a family in one font.
Classification
A bastarda style that fuses fraktur and roman letter construction into a dark, dense text colour, with italic lowercase set against roman uppercase.
Weights
RegularItalic
Languages
Latin
Tags
blackletterbastardahistoricalaward-winningdense text colour