The Devil’s Poetry

The Devil's Poetry - A Blackletter font by Michael W. Moss

Style: Blackletter Gothic

License: MyFonts License

Purchase Link: MyFonts

About:

The Devil’s Poetry is my first commercial font. The initial idea behind it was a vintage-style typeface with tall vertical lines for the capital letters. The name comes from the phrase, “Sarcasm is the devil’s poetry.” The lowercase letters feature a pleasing hexagonal visual cadence while the capital letters stand tall and modestly ornate.

The Devil’s Poetry is available in three styles and features a Unicode Latin Extended-A character set.

After releasing the typeface, I wrote a poem to better articulate the mood and meaning behind the name:

Shield away the ears of the young

and clutch ye your rosary

upon the vulgar utterances of my tongue

for my sarcasm is the devil’s poetry.

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Uses:

The Devil’s Poetry font was used for the title and track listing on the AncolagE dark ambient album Daemones.