Posthumous

released 2025

Posthumous is a slightly friendly, slightly spooky semiconnected blackletter script. It has six weights or comes as a variable font, and includes lots of OpenType features. Some highlights:

Trailing Caps

Inspired by Matthijs Herzberg’s Mancine, Posthumous will automatically use swashless forms of capital letters in all-caps contexts.

Non-Swashing Stylistic Set

By default, Posthumous uses swash caps. But this can be turned off with a stylistic set for a simpler, easier-to-read style.

Disconnected Stylistic Set

Similarly, the default behavior for Posthumous is to use connected forms, but it can easily switch to a more standard blackletter style of unconnected forms via a stylistic set.

Automatic Symbols

A dash followed by a greater than symbol will automatically convert into a right arrow (->). Less than followed by a dash will make a left arrow (<-). And equals signs on either side of a slash will make a notequals sign (=/=)!

Numeral Sets

Posthumous contains four sets of numerals—lining, oldstyle, tabular lining, and tabular oldstyle—plus support for fractions, superscript, and subscript numbers.

I would like to extend my utmost thanks to Kelsey Elder and James Edmondson for their very crucial feedback; Colin M. Ford, Matthijs Herzberg, and Reiner Erich Scheichelbauer for their assistance, inspiration, and tutorials about OpenType features; and Kel Troughton for his advice on opening my foundry and releasing my first font. I couldn’t have done it without you all.