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Metal Blackletter

Metal Blackletter commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Matt Smith50% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Metal Blackletter

01

Best Font Pairings for Metal Blackletter

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Metal Blackletter, including combinations with Madhuban, Epunda Sans and Umbara.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

Explore 3 Pairings for Metal Blackletter
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Test Metal Blackletter Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Metal Blackletter with any font combination in real-time, optimized for display characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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In Context

Metal Blackletter Specimen Gallery

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Metal Blackletter
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Metal Blackletter Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Metal Blackletter Specimen

Metal Blackletter

Metal Blackletter is a display typeface by Matt Smith built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Metal Blackletter
Metal Blackletter
METAL BLACKLETTER
METAL BLACKLETTERTYPE
M

Tagline Pairings

Metal Blackletter— display typeface
Metal BlackletterBy Matt Smith
Metal BlackletterTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Metal Blackletter Glyphs & Characters

Size48
Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Type Scale

Heading Styles with Metal Blackletter

Heading Level 1<h1>
64px
Bold
72px
Metal Blackletter primary headline
Heading Level 2<h2>
48px
SemiBold
56px
Metal Blackletter section heading
Heading Level 3<h3>
32px
Medium
40px
Metal Blackletter subsection title
Heading Level 4<h4>
24px
Regular
32px
Metal Blackletter content heading
Heading Level 5<h5>
18px
Regular
26px
Metal Blackletter minor heading
Heading Level 6<h6>
14px
Medium
20px
Metal Blackletter smallest heading
Font SizeWeightLine Height
Body Copy

Body Text with Metal Blackletter

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Metal Blackletter, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Metal Blackletter demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Metal Blackletter for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Metal Blackletter small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

ElementWeightSizeLine HeightTrackingPreview
Body TextRegular16px24px0.5pxMetal Blackletter delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxMetal Blackletter italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxMetal Blackletter bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxMetal Blackletter typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxMetal Blackletter typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'Metal Blackletter'; }

Quick Start

Using Metal Blackletter in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Metal+Blackletter:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Metal+Blackletter:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Metal Blackletter';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Metal+Blackletter:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Styling with Metal Blackletter

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Metal Blackletter', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Metal Blackletter', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'metal-blackletter': ['Metal Blackletter', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-metal-blackletter">Your text here</p>

About

Inside Metal Blackletter

Matt Smith
Display
Open Source

Metal Blackletter font is a display typeface presenting blackletter gothic forms through cool geometric sharp construction for heavy metal musical aesthetics. The aggressive letterforms project metal band authority suitable for heavy metal branding, music promotion, and design projects celebrating metal blackletter typography. Sharp geometric gothic forms create aggressive presence while metal influence adds subcultural character. Effective for metal music, concert promotion, and band merchandise.

Metal Blackletter was crafted by Matt Smith. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Metal Blackletter features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers.

Metal Blackletter is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Metal Blackletter

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Metal Blackletter

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Metal Blackletter's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

1

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Metal Blackletter within the Graphic (Display / Titling) tradition, characterized by Tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and Exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. Display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Key technical strength: high visual impact with minimal typographic hierarchy.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 50). Metal Blackletter offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Matt Smith. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Metal Blackletter

Metal Blackletter represents a Graphic typeface, grounded in the tradition where display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Its distinctive tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features make it well-suited for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers. TypeSmith catalogs Metal Blackletter in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

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3 curated pairings for Metal Blackletter
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Accessibility & Usability

50
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Metal Blackletter Accessibility Profile

Metal Blackletter falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Legibility Analysis: Metal Blackletter

Metal Blackletter draws legibility from its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

How Readable is Metal Blackletter?

Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt. Display faces sacrifice small-size legibility for visual impact and personality at headline scale. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Metal Blackletter: Comfort in Extended Reading

Metal Blackletter provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Metal Blackletter Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Metal Blackletter. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Metal Blackletter at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Getting the Most from Metal Blackletter

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Metal Blackletter. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Metal Blackletter in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights & Styles

Available Weights

400
Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

Weight Reference

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100
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200
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300
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400
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500
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600
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700
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800
Aa
900

Internationalization

Language Support

Extended Latin Coverage
Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Dutch

Nordic

  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic

Central European

  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Slovak

Baltic

  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian

This font encodes 80 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Font License Details

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1
Free for personal and commercial use
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What you can do

  • Personal projects
  • Commercial projects
  • Web embedding
  • App embedding
  • Modification
  • Redistribution

Restrictions

  • Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Metal Blackletter is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Metal Blackletter ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.