The idea was to do a typeface which creates a dark text block on the page. It seemed worth a try to combine elements of fraktur and roman type, like the first roman with blackletter legacy by Sweynheym & Pannartz, or private press types cut around 1900. And like with early italic types, Litteratra’s italic lowercase are accompanied by roman uppercase. This suggested to include italics in the regular font.

With a set of italic lowercase, small caps, spaced uppercase, titling uppercase, with standard and discretionary ligatures, contextual alternates, with oldstyle and lining numerals, both proportional and tabular, with superiors, inferiors and arbitrary fractions (more than 1900 glyphs), Litteratra may be described as a family in one font.

The name Litteratra is a ligature of “littera atra”, dark letter.

ISO 8859-1
Latin1
Afrikaans, Albanian, Breton, Catalan, Danish, English (UK and US), Faroese, Galician, German, Icelandic, Irish (new orthography), Italian, Kurdish (The Kurdish Unified Alphabet), Latin (basic classical orthography), Leonese, Luxembourgish (basic classical orthography), Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Occitan, Portuguese (Portuguese and Brazilian), Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Walloon, Basque

ISO 8859-2
Latin2
Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian (when in the Latin script), Slovak, Slovene, Upper Sorbian, and Lower Sorbian.

ISO 8859-3
Latin3
Esperanto, Maltese, Turkish

ISO 8859-4
Latin4
Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Greenlandic, Sami

ISO 8859-9
Latin5
Turkish

ISO 8859-10
Latin6
Nordic languages

Taste Test If you purchase a single weight (or more) of this typeface, then return later to buy the complete family, we will credit you the amount of the original sale.

Karsten Luecke Type Foundry End User License Agreement // v1.2, June 2005

This license agreement is a legally binding contract between you, the licensee, and Karsten Luecke (KLTF). By downloading our font software, you acknowledge that you understand this license agreement and promise to comply with its terms.

If you do not accept the terms, please do not complete the purchase transaction.

1. License & usage rights

Upon payment of the usage fee, you are granted the non-exclusive and non-transferable right to use the font software on a number of computers within your organization as determined by the number of licenses you have purchased. You can purchase additional licenses at any time.

The number of output devices is not restricted, provided they do not store the font software permanently.

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We recommend that you provide your service bureau with a PDF file with the font software embedded.

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If you do experience any difficulties with our font software, please contact us, and we will do our best to resolve any issues. If this should not be possible, we will be pleased to refund your money, which shall be the limit of our liability in this transaction.

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