Maxi, that's great.
ILC

Thanks. I consider that page a piece of art.
Though legibility may be at risk, its proportion, blackness
and minucious way it was made should never be forgot.
I think it is a must for typographers of nowadays to look up to, and follow, those presses, which, apart from printing/binding/designing wonderful books, used to design unique alphabets, with passion! always in order to look so elegant and hard to forget.

Visit if you are interested: www.elstonpress.com or www.bromer.com

Best,

Lián Types.-

Nice resources. Yeah, the T is pretty much illegible, but it makes up for a nice texture.
I'm more of the thinking that "new technologies requires new typefaces" but the spirit behind those compositions is surely something to remember and keep still in force.

ILC

> Though legibility may be at risk,

> Yeah, the T is pretty much illegible, but it makes up for a nice texture.

I don't think it would be difficult to read for people at that time. Especially for people in countries where blackletter was used extensively at that time, like in Germany for example. If you are used to it, it's probably very legible.

> "I don’t think it would be difficult to read for people at that time".

The "reading times", the way they used to read, were totally different than what they are nowadays.

Reading and calligraphy were considered religious acts. Every reader would take long hours in churchs and libraries reading, with the big "In folio" books, which were tied to the seat with a chain.

The aim of those calligraphers of medieval times, and of the PreRafaelist ideology followers (SXIX and part of SXX)
was to generate a very dark black block on every page.
Although they were more used than we are, to read those pages, I bet they knew that if they looked at the page from a meter of distance the blackness would make the page illegible.

I think the blackletter style is full of positive points, like the mystic spirit it has, but the risk of not achieving the communication it pretends is big.

Lián Types.-

Sanka... obviously:

http://www.fontalicious.com/super/sanka.html

Mikey :-)