1 / 9About Faber Gotic Font
Picture a designer at work on craft brewery labels, vintage album cover art, or wedding suites that need real typographic authority and presence. Faber Gotic, created by ingoFonts, takes the broken-letter forms from Gutenberg's 1450 script and reimagines them for today. This is blackletter stripped down to its geometric bones, all hard corners and rigid angles, with none of the fussy historical baggage that typically comes with the category. It reads as deliberately modern rather than reverently historic, which is precisely what sets it apart.
The typeface comes in three distinct weights to suit different contexts: Text keeps closer to traditional letterforms, Gothic pushes the geometric principle hardest, and Capitals offers uppercase-only strength for impact. You'll find it works anywhere you need that tension between authority and edge: craft brewery branding, theater posters, tattoo parlor signage, metalwork packaging, or intricate tattoo flash designs. The font handles display work cleanly at larger sizes, where each angular character becomes a visual anchor rather than a period decoration. Strong geometric structure means it reads even at smaller point sizes, though it truly shines when you let it breathe as a headline.
Download Faber Gotic from Creative Fabrica and explore what you can build with forms that respect the past without being trapped by it.
Style & Use Cases
- Overall Style
- Ornate, Gothic
- Use Case
- Logos, Certificates
- Ideal For
- medieval themes, band merch, and tattoo lettering
- Pairs With
- a clean sans-serif for body text
How to Install Faber Gotic Font
Step-by-step instructions for every platform
- 1Download the Faber Gotic font file (.ttf or .otf).
- 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
- 3Right-click the font file.
- 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
- 5Faber Gotic is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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Faber Gotic Font is a blackletter font that shines as a display or heading face. Pair it with a clean serif or sans-serif font for body text — the contrast creates a clear hierarchy while the two styles stay balanced and easy to read.
Faber Gotic Font
by ingoFonts
Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated June 2026















