Darka Font

Designer: Gabriel Martínez Meave
Publisher: Sudtipos

Darka is a magnificent, mysterious dark woman reincarnated in digital vectors as an original blackletter font. Her gothic, medieval, nighttime characteristics take the kind of sharp terminals, sexy curves, calligraphic style and complicated character. Darka mixes the balance of Textura, the circulation of Fraktur and the elegant lowercase-to-uppercase ratio of Bâtarde into a stylish, innovative typeface with a Mexican soul.

Starting as a personal, calligraphic hand, Darka slowly evolved into digital type, developing alternate glyphs, flourishes and unique signs to protect its hand-written origins and delicate stress, making it an exceptional screen typeface and, surprisingly, even a distinctive, crisp font style for short texts.

Darka received an Award of Excellence at the Type Directors Club of New York annual competition.