
There are traditionally two kinds of ‘gothic’ type, blackletter and sans serif, to which Shinn now adds a third by dosing the classic Roman alphabet with a philtre of mystery, malice and antiquity. Where once was purity and grace now exists the undead—crooked, scarred and beastly. An oxymoron, no doubt, for a design to be both gothic and humanist, yet Merlin points to the fallacy of demonizing otherness, of becoming too settled in the association of form with meaning.
Merlin. Specimen pdf. License at Fontshop.