Bastard (typeface)

Bastard is a blackletter typeface designed by Jonathan Barnbrook in 1990.

The name derives from a typographic classification known as Bastarda.

The Bastard face is an exploration of the blackletter face (the earliest types, similar to those made by Gutenberg, and based upon monastic script) with a simple kit of parts.

[1] While the angular terminals suggest the nib of a pen, the typeface was drawn electronically and avoids curved strokes.

The c. 1865 typeface Fletcher is similar in its purely geometric construction.