Slackletter is the name of the type family I designed and created for my senior show project at UW-Stout: the end result of hundreds of sketches and hours upon hours of tweaking, testing, research, trial-and-error blundering, late- night snack runs, uncomfortable chairs, and the occasional bout of procrastination. That said, Slackletter is a blackletter-inspired display typeface wherein severe-looking 13th century Gothic scripts are pushed, pulled, trimmed and tweaked until they look a bit more sensible to the modern (American) eye. While Slackletter is similar in its aims to other contemporary “blackletter” typefaces such as Fakir (by Underware) or Blaktur (by House Industries), it retains its own unique identity: Slightly straighter, a little less script-y, Slackletter is a typeface suitable for setting everything from titles to text. It is also designed with the proportions of a modern sans-serif in mind, so it will sit more harmoniously with, say, Helvetica than most any other blackletter script out there.