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Brought from the Middle Ages and imbued with the bleakness and mystery of Cambridge and Oxford libraries, Old English fonts don’t leave creators indifferent. The same happened with us, actually, so in this selection, we’ve brought the best of Old English, gothic, and blackletter fonts and did our best to merge tradition with the recent trends.
Essential Old English Fonts
If you think that Old English fonts are cumbersome and inflexible when applied to modern projects, let us prove you wrong. Definitely, the old-fashioned typography is a themed twist and it is more likely to be used by musicians for metal album covers and merch or as a reference to the Medieval aesthetic. However, as we allow some freedom and drop some vibes onto classic calligraphy, the Old English fonts transform into a trendy tool able to crown literally any concept and design.
What are Old English Fonts?
Old English fonts are medieval script writing, otherwise called Gothic. They developed in the XII century and have been used ever since. The most recognizable version, Textura, was suggested by Gutenberg, and it was used for print unless more legible Roman types replaced them. The key feature of a classic Old English font is its consistency, and the dense letter placement inside the word and the sentence.
Our Team’s Top Pick
Babylon | Modern Blackletter
Upgrade your designs with a mixed-media-inspired Babylon type. This new Old English font includes uppercase letters, numerals, and an extensive punctuation set and brings the best appearance. Babylon is perfect for posters, web design, branding, illustrations, invitations, advertising, and other works made to be bold and catchy.
The Bjorke — Handmade Fonts
2 styles, regular and alternative, and the best of old typography — that’s what The Bjorke is. This is an Old English script font with a classic touch that’s perfect for logos, header, titles, prints & other creative concepts.
Aviorte Blackletter Font
Pixelbuddha is our regular contributor who’s got plenty of Old English and other fonts. And Aviorte is surely one of the best types! Packed with uppercase letters, numerals, and punctuation marks, you can always make your composition look very beautiful and decorative with Aviorte. As a little bonus to complete the look: swashes, drawn Dobermann heads, and ornaments.
Warsuck
Introducing Warsuck, a hand-drawn font that reminds of the underground culture,. Warsuck emphasizes the usage of uppercase letters as the main display but still includes lowercase letters. Strong, vintage, and aesthetic lettering with alternates characters.
Clockwork Blackletter Typeface
Presenting a handmade Victorian type, combining modern and classic typography with awesome alternates that are more typical for new Old English fonts. It will add a classic touch of this decade to your projects: from prints and alcohol labels to logos and book covers.
Killviners Blackletter Font
Consisting of all the necessities (numerals, punctuation, multilingual support, uppercase and lowercase letters, stylistic alternates), the Killviners type will be the magnet for attention in any concepts starving for the Old English fonts aesthetic!
Forsaken Font
Forsaken is a beautifully handcrafted typeface that will be a great choice for logos, prints, apparel, and more! This font pack comes with both fill and outline versions and 50 glyphs, giving you tons of layout options to play with.
Glofters — Display Blackletter
Glofters is an edgy Old English font that comes in 4 styles. Choose between regular, round, stamp, and rough to make the writing more applicable to your current creative project. Glofters includes uppercase and lowercase letters, punctuation, numerals. There are also alternates and ligatures.
Black Mild — Classic Blackletter Font
Black Mild is a traditional-style type reminding of the gothic Old English font style. It was designed with a simpler and more unique touch to upgrade the aged look, so you can consider it an expressive yet vintage addition to your typography toolbox any themed design projects.
Avestrava Regular
Avestrava is perfect for making logotypes, tattoo designs, t-shirt prints, liquor labels, band posters, band album covers, and many more. In either of these projects, Avestrava will convey the nature of the vintage lettering into a layout design. You’ll also find some of the nicest ornaments featured in the pack.
Three Clover
Three Clover includes uppercase and lowercase letters, punctuations, and international characters. It is fantastic for but not limited to apparel, posters, branding, logo design, advertising, etc, so check out it right now.
Scotland — Free Blackletter Display Font
Introducing Scotland, a free old-school font that features a subtle vintage texture. Perfect for any traditional, grunge, or vintage design project. If you are generally keen on Old English fonts and Medieval times and find Scotland the perfect match, consider upgrading and purchasing the entire font family, Kaiser, coming in 6 styles.
Cambridge — Bold Decorative Gothic Font
Cambridge is bold hand-lettering font with a matching and so very inspiring presentation. If you have been starving for the powerful medieval gothic feeling, it has it all! Try Cambridge for any design projects, including book covers, logos, and prints.
Hello Mytotys Blackletter
The Hello Mytoys is supported by alternative options such as ligatures and alternative characters, making the type very easy to create designs with strong or dark themes. It also provides swash elements for creating ornaments. In addition, it is also supported with multilingual characters.
Olde English
Turn any text into the historical heritage of the 15th century and refresh your toolbox with this some more fonts. Olde English is a living legend and one of the most popular types in the genre, so make sure to download the freebie.
Rozex — Bold Decorative Gothic Font
Rozex Font is a fancy Old English font made to bring back has a medieval gothic feeling. It contains everything for comfortable work: Latin characters, numbers, punctuation, alternate characters and ligatures.
Svart Free Font
The author of Svart had to play with some simple typography canons and kerning — and let’s admit the result is just mind-blowing. Here we have a free font, highly digital, with distinctive Norwegian/Scandinavian features.
Volantis Vintage Blackletter Font
Dare to explore the all-powerful calligraphy font that will fit in almost any project despite its rigorous characters and a bit conservative look. The originally-designed Volantis comes with multilingual support and is accessible in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, even work on Microsoft Word.
Monk — Free Font
Monk Gothic is a distinctive font based on the style of medieval books and scripts. Its typography is the perfect balance of strength and elegance. It was originally designed under the influence of German frakturs, Monk will come in handy whenever you want to go classy and classical at a time.
Vadderick — Vintage Handlettering Calligraphy
Vadderick font was carefully drawn in Old English style, then scanned and digitized — always with enormous attention to detail. Vadderick contains basic Latin characters, numbers and punctuation.
Beast & Baron — Free Blackletter Font
Beast & Baron is a grungy, handcrafted free font. It demonstrates a rough approach to the traditional textured gothic style. Every glyph was carefully designed & drawn by hand, giving each letter the proper amount of roughness and authenticity.
Pleasure | Modern Blackletter
Pleasure is a new gothic typeface that suits perfectly for music albums, posters, flyers, headlines and many more projects. The download includes the standard letter set, so go ahead and start creating!
Traditio AH Font
Traditio AH font includes uppercase and lowercase letters, symbols and numbers. For professional purposes, there is a premium version available with additional characters and the swashes for r and s.
Unlucky — Blackletter Script Font
Brought as a pessimistic script, it has nothing to do with doom and gloom. In fact, Unlucky is all about catchy shapes coming hand in hand with traditional high letters and creative ideas that pop in every character.
Mordova Blackletter Typeface
Mordova a font with a modern twist and super simple style that doesn’t look boring. It is free and extremely fascinating. It has something peculiar equally borrowed from East European typography and the Old English fonts, and for some reason, no one can resist the temptation to give this type a go.
Milkman — Free Combination Display Font
Milkman is a grotesk/display typeface that reminds of Old English fonts and yet having nothing in common with them. It is imagined with a very sharp and editorial look, perfect for typographic artworks, posters and experimental concepts.
Candelabra Blackletter Font + Extras
Candelabra is a font full of medieval mysticism and age. Upper and lowercase letters are included, along with ligatures, numerals, and punctuation. As part of the download, some bonus extras are included: 8 high-resolution layer styles to bring the new Old English aesthetic to your projects.
Berkahi Blackletter Font
Berkahi font includes everything you need for your creating process: upper and lowercase letters, symbols and numbers. So, whether you are crafting a digital or printed project, you will be fully armed with this type.
Deathmatch Font
Craft beer packaging, tote bag print, custom stickers, the title for a new rock band EP you’ve recorded with your friends — there are so many designs you can use this typeface for! Designed as a new Old English font, Deathmatch is an ultimately versatile solution, besides you can use it for free in your personal projects.
Bullgine Blackletter
Introducing, Bullgine, a gothic calligraphy Old English font. This type is perfectly made to be applied to business and printed projects. Just imagine it as a logo! Bullgine includes a standard character set as well as a collection of stylistic alternates.
DemonLetter — Free Font
Every stroke is perfect, and this type will appeal to everyone obsessed with straight lines and perfectly balanced geometry. Demon Letter looks very organized and reserved, not a single trait of the fancy Old English font aesthetics, so its versatility can’t be underestimated.
Panata Typeface
Panata is a modern typeface inspired by gothic and hand-lettered signs in Manila streets. The provided free font version contains the uppercase and numbers only, however, that will be enough to fall for this type.
Overgreed — Rounded Blackletter
Overgreed is an Old English font with a rounded touch style. Being so infinitely elegant and light, it adds a bold glimmer to your projects and inspires to create something unique and modern. Overgreed is equipped with alternative characters and multilanguage support.
Datons Blackletter — Free Font
Datons is a free font made with a vintage touch but doesn’t lose its signature of the fancy Old English font style. Perfect for headlines or brand names or any other spooky & vintage-themed design needs. Datons includes the basic character set and punctuation.
Metal Blackletter — Free Font
Here comes a free geometric font with perfectly balanced letters. It includes uppercase and lowercase characters, punctuation and numerals. The type follows the bold Old English fonts style and is ideal for headings, flyers, and greeting cards.
Pariah — Heavy Weight Blackletter Font
Pariah is a heavy-weight Old English font that comes in 6 carefully handcrafted styles and includes a variety of alternates. Pro tip: it works incredibly well in all caps. As a bonus, Pariah includes vector grain texture perfectly pairing with the type.
Forestine — Stylish Blackletter
Forestine comes with a handwritten and rough feel, which will make your design more humanist. You can use the uppercase and lowercase together for a more unique touch. Also comes with multilingual support and PUA encoded.
Santiago Typeface
is grim or grunge, however, it will satisfy everyone seeking some reserved, even modest seriousness in Old English fonts. Santiago has it all, and besides, it looks so good in experimental art projects — just check the previews for some inspiration.
Mokgech Typeface
The Mokgech typeface is inspired by cool old-style letters. It has many alternative characters such as swashes, ligatures, and uppercase or lowercase letters. In addition, the Mokgech font is also equipped with a gothic script lowercase version. It is suitable for tattoo and horror-themed designs.
Vanity — Free Blackletter Font
Vanity is a classic-style Fraktur font, carefully hand-drawn and adapted for better readability. Inspired by the classic Old English Fonts, Vanity is ready to be your title, headline, logotype, badge, t-shirt design, or branding project.
Enchanted Land
Welcome to the Enchanted Land, where fun has no age limit! This fancy Old English font captures the magic of classic storybook telling with princesses and castles. It features a clean glyph set with many European accents and diacritics. The whimsical style of the caps flows with consistency and shows up in the numbers and many other marks as well.
Fracture — Free Display Font
Fracture is a free gothic font. This super unique font is a mix of classic & modern. Perfect for logos, branding, headlines, posters, and much more. Multilanguage support coming in the package also allows you to design & translate messages for any audience.
English Towne
Introducing English Towne, a beautiful example of medieval and fantasy-inspired Old English fonts. Letting out your inner nerd with this one! English Towne is exactly what a traditional Old English fonts should be, and it’s also a great idea of a tattoo for those who want a drop from the Middle Ages.
Textura Font
Here comes the legendary Textura, the ancestor of Old English fonts. It’s an ideal choice for tattoo studios, trendy fashion apparel, book covers, packaging design, and more. The font is recognised for classy vintage forms.
Castillo Font
Free and so appealing — meet Castillo, an Old English font with a modern, distinctive look. It can be used for the design of alcoholic beverage packaging, tattoo, pomade designs, barbershops, and so on with the classic Victorian concept.
