: Medieval gothic font with cyrillic characters There are plenty medieval gothic fonts with latin characters, but I can’t find one with cyrillic characters. Can you recommend some?

@Turnbaugh909

The following is compiled from threads on Cyrillic blackletter fonts on Typografie.info, the Unifraktur board and Typophile.

First, here are some digital blackletter fonts containing Cyrillic characters:


San Marco
Encient German Gothic
AZ McLeud Normal
Kaas
Moyenage


In some of the above threads, you can als find references to old specimen containing may cyrillic blackletter fonts. Here are some samples:

Historic Cyrillic blackletter specimen www.typografie.info/typoforum/userpix/932_01_1.jpg Historic Cyrillic blackletter specimen www.typografie.info/typoforum/userpix/932_02_1.jpg Historic Cyrillic blackletter specimen www.typografie.info/typoforum/userpix/932_03_1.jpg
Historic Cyrillic blackletter specimen typophile.com/files/1862_Cyr_Blackletter_5044.gif Historic Cyrillic blackletter specimen typophile.com/files/1902_Cyr_Blackletter_5737.gif

Finally, here are some modern-day usages of Cyrillic blackletter fonts.

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@Tiffany317

The Cyrillic alphabet has a somewhat different genealogy from blackletter, although they share some common ancestry. From a typographic standpoint, Cyrillic blackletter seems to me something of an oxymoron, but if you really want to go ahead with it I would say Blonde Fraktur, which the designer herself points out isn't really Fraktur and isn't really medieval blackletter (and certainly isn't blonde!), is probably a good choice if you're going to be working with a modern Cyrillic character set.

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