Designed by Christian Thalmann, Kuschelfraktur is a blackletter font household. This typeface has six styles and was released by Catharsis Fonts.

Kuschelfraktur is a distinct, attractive take on the style of blackletter that replaces the broad nib with a brush pen and accomplishes stroke modulation through stencil-like spaces. It combines the texture and self-respect of blackletter with the human heat of casual handwriting.

Kuschelfraktur uses five separate sets of uppercase and several extra customization choice by means of stylistic alternates. The degree of ornamentation in the blackletter capitals can be increased (SS02) or decreased (SS07), while SS04 and SS05 use 2 easier methods to capital letters that bridge from blackletter to Roman letters (Antiqua). The default single-storey "a" can be replaced with a two-storey version in SS01, and SS08 provides a single-storey capital "A" for the easy capitals. Lastly, SS03 brings back a few of the more distinct letter shapes of the Fraktur design of blackletter. The old-style figures can be replaced with lining and/or tabular figures. All these stylistic sets are available by means of OpenType from the primary font, Kuschelfraktur, whereas the spin-off typefaces (Traditional, Verziert, Text, Schlicht, Antiqua) offer practical access to those sets even in environments without OpenType support.

I am grateful to the handy souls on the TypeDrawers and Typographie.info forums for motivation and useful feedback, and to the Glyphs team for their wonderful type editor. Kuschelfraktur is dedicated to my kid Marius.

Font Family:
· Kuschelfraktur Regular
· Kuschelfraktur Verziert Regular
· Kuschelfraktur Text Regular
· Kuschelfraktur Tradition Regular
· Kuschelfraktur Antiqua Regular
· Kuschelfraktur Schlicht Regular