Gryffensee

What is the Gryffensee Font?

Gryffensee is designed to be the Futura of blackletter, combining the time-honored gravity and relentlessness of the Gothic script with the clean, contemporary freshness of the geometric sans. Built from a tightly controlled inventory of lines, arcs, sharp cuts, and OpenType features, Gryffensee was born and raised in the digital age, yet retains the powerful charisma and human warmth of its mediaeval blackletter ancestors. As a result, it excels in a wide range of display settings, logotypes, and short text. Unlike most conventional blackletters, it even handles all-caps usage with grace, and includes an extensive Cyrillic character set (in the Pro version).. Apart from a generous range of automatic ligatures and contextual alternates, Gryffensee offers stylistic alternates that allow users to customize its appearance to their tastes. The capital letters |AGHIKZ| come in alternate cuts that trade traditional shapes for increased legibility, while the letter |s| appears in three cuts, each with a unique, distinct flavor. All these options are accessible through OpenType stylistic sets in the main Latin font, Gryffensee Eins. For easy use in applications without OpenType support, we provide two additional Latin fonts (Gryffensee Zwei and Drei) in which these options replace the default cuts. Finally, Gryffensee Pro offers all the functionality of Gryffensee Eins, plus Cyrillic support.. My intention to devise a contemporary geometric blackletter was inspired by four hand-painted letters, |ABCD|, in Sasha Prood’s online portfolio. I later found out that he had, in turn, taken those letters from an existing font, Bastard, by Jonathan Barnbrook. Luckily, by that time my project had taken on a life of its own. Gryffensee is an original design that bears only the most superficial resemblance to Bastard. Gryffensee is a mediaeval spelling of the lake Greifensee near which I grew up. It is pronounced [ˈgriːfənˌseː], or “GRIEF-un-say” in English approximation. This font is dedicated to Simone.

Gryffensee Font Families

When you download Gryffensee, the family will include the following font styles:

• Gryffensee Eins Regular
• Gryffensee Zwei Regular
• Gryffensee Drei Regular
• Gryffensee Pro Regular

Preview of the Gryffensee Font

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Who Designed the Gryffensee Font?

This font has 4 style(s) and was published by Catharsis Fonts.

Is Gryffensee a Free Download?

Like all of the fonts listed here on The Font Bot, Gryffensee is a premium font and is not available to download for free.

Please do not try to find a free download of Gryffensee. If you really want this font for your new project, support the designer and the foundry and click here to purchase it officially.

I'm sure if you tried really hard, you could figure out how to download Gryffensee for free. You might also get a virus on your computer or get hacked as a result. Not to mention it is illegal to use Gryffensee if you did not pay for it.

How Much is Gryffensee to Buy?

If you've made it this far down the page and you are really interested to use Gryffensee for your new project, great!

The last time we checked the price for Gryffensee, it was available for as little as $25.00.