Blackout Midnight
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Blackout Midnight is a heavy, all-caps display typeface built entirely from solid black letterforms with a chunky, blocky structure. It has a strong retro personality, drawing from vintage poster and signage traditions, with thick strokes that leave very little negative space inside the characters. The overall effect is bold and commanding, making it immediately attention-grabbing at large sizes. It works best at display scale since the density of the letterforms makes it illegible at small sizes. The personality lands somewhere between tough and nostalgic, with enough visual weight to dominate a layout without additional graphic support.
Blackout Midnight works well as a headline font for music festival branding, where the bold retro aesthetic fits the high-energy visual language of posters and merchandise. It is also a solid choice for horror or Halloween-themed promotional materials, where the dark, dense letterforms reinforce the mood without needing extra decoration. A third practical application is streetwear or independent apparel brands that want a vintage Americana or underground feel on labels, tags, and website headers. In all these cases, the font should be used sparingly, limited to short words or phrases where impact matters more than readability.
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Blackout Midnight at a glance
SIL Open Font License 1.1
May 2023
1 (1 weight)
Display
1
Fontsource (open source)
Blackout Midnight styles
| Weight | Name | Upright |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Regular | Aa Bb Gg 123 |
Blackout Midnight character map
Which languages does Blackout Midnight support?
Blackout Midnight includes one character set:
- Latin: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and other Western European languages
It does not include Cyrillic or Greek characters, so it can't set Russian, Ukrainian or Greek text.
Can I use Blackout Midnight commercially?
Yes, it's free for personal and commercial use. Blackout Midnight is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it in logos, websites, apps, videos, printed products and merchandise without paying or asking permission. The one thing you can't do is sell the font file on its own.