The German magazine Slanted's spring issue is out and features blackletter type. It looks quite comprehensive in its scope. It is a very different aesthetic to anything I design or curate for UPPERCASE, but it is always good to explore/admire other styles!

In “Heavy Metal. Lovers.” we look into blackletter fonts and their modern applications. Slanted presents the innovative work of Invisible Creature (Seattle), historic type-treasures from the archives of Linotype (Bad Homburg) and Klingspor Museum (Offenbach), the photo documentation “True Norwegian Black Metal” from Peter Beste (New York) etc. ...

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and curious