Blackletter for the Present

I subscribe to Robin Rendle’s newsletter all about typefaces and fonts (and you should too) and this week he was talking about blackletter type that has been rethought to work for modern readers. The whole newsletter is great, but what caught my eye and seemed worth sharing here was the product page for the typeface Elfreth over at JTD Type. The research and choices they made as they were designing Elfreth to make sure it feels contemporary rather than a throwback to traditional blackletter type are really interesting, and it is fun to see their research and inspiration.