Comments on: Moyenage: Blackletter for a Modern Age

By: Anarcissie

Anarcissie — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:44:30 +0000

A great font. I particularly enjoyed the Cyrillic, which urgently needs, and has not received, the attention it deserves from typographers, and to which it will powerfully respond if given a chance.

By: Milan

Milan — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:55:54 +0000

I think that blackletter is not really in the spirit of the cyrillic alphabet. I find it an odd combination. A modern cyrillic alphabet in the style of Old Church Slavonic would have been a better choice.

By: Jackofff

Jackofff — Mon, 25 May 2009 06:48:01 +0000

Wow! Amazing cyrillic on Ilovetypography!

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A Blackletter Font for the New Age | Jobs for Creatives — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:39:10 +0000

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By: Sergey

Sergey — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:30:15 +0000

Cyrillic letters are perfect. Thank you, mr. Storm.

By: Anthony Proulx of Plastic Printers

Anthony Proulx of Plastic Printers — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:10:43 +0000

I would say its a great font for headlines, and titles, but beyond that it seems like it would be a little hard to place it..

CD cover art is a great spot for it too, actually now that I think about it more it could be placed elsewhere as well. Like posters, fliers, and even ads.

Great inspiration as always, thanks!

By: Vim

Vim — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:21:09 +0000

great article, moyenage is a nice font, Im just thinking how the font would be incorporated within a website!

By: Dan Gayle

Dan Gayle — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:15:55 +0000

@Florian
Who knows? Perhaps that is what Štorm was referencing. Very funny!

By: Torbjørn Vik Lunde

Torbjørn Vik Lunde — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:45:00 +0000

Great article and interview. Thanks.

A font like this is something I’ve thought about (whether it existed). Blackletter can look quite good, but too often hard to read. Great to see more of these appearing.

Would be interesting to see someone do something similar with a completely different writing system (maybe even considerably older) writing system. For instance, a rune-inspired latin font. (And not only like a gimmick, but as a usable font.)

Interesting to see a font made with (among others) black metal art in mind. Although 90% of black metal logos are either set in a poor blackletter, or made in some unoriginal custom type that’s impossible to read there are some bands that have interesting logo. Deathspell Omega have a quite nice custom logotype. (I also noticed one of their albums used some quite Venetian looking type for the inlay.)