Rock out with Metalista + Fakir
Ninja April 14th, 2008
Oh, yes! Not 1, but 2 free, rocking fonts for your Monday!
Metalista is an expression of undying admiration at the persistency of the metal culture. Angular face of nearly monolinear proportions combines upper and lower case letterforms. The strengthened horizontal strokes are aimed at softening of the “gothic” feel of the face, and add to its contemporary character.
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Fakir is a contemporary take on the blackletter genre – a streetwise gothic, so to speak. It examines the edgy structure of the textura alphabet, as it was written with broad-nibbed pens for centuries, but also looks at lettershapes used in graffiti pieces.For decades, blackletter was abandoned – it was almost a taboo, with its confusing connotations of fascism, heavy metal rock, and beer. But the genre has seen a remarkable revival, and it’s cool again to use and wear it. Underware taps into that newly found popularity, hoping “to give our generation a blackletter from the here and now.” Fakir is not a revival, but “an all-new 21st-century blackletter uncorked in 2006, after 5 years of aging.”
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