I like to call this first one Rock Out. Keywords to describe this typeface would be sans-serif and blackletter. This is a display typeface not suitable for typing out significant amounts of text. It aims to maintain a somewhat medieval era feeling while also seeming modern due to its unadorned, refined, and angular edges. The bases of letters all either carry their strokes downward into points or flatten out without sending a descender down beneath the other characters. I have not yet decided if I will be making entire sets of both capital and lowercase letters. As of now all the letters are set as lowercase.
For the time being I am calling this typeface Run Through, although I'm not very fond of that name and I am likely to change it. If you happen to be wondering about why I chose that name in the first place, it is because I am trying to maintain a consistent band of negative space throughout the center of all my characters. This typeface is geometric and sans-serif. There are no humanist elements present as it does not resemble human handwriting at all. It feels cold, mechanical, and calculated. This is also a display typeface and should not be used for significant sections of text. At this time I plan on leaving this typeface with only capital characters.
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