Karuta is a traditional Japanese card game where players listen to short descriptions read aloud from a reader’s card. Each turn, players race to grab the matching card with the corresponding picture or text, and the player with the most cards at the end wins.
Font Karuta is a variation designed for typography enthusiasts. Instead of pictures, the reader announces the font name and description on the reader’s card, and players compete to pick up the card displaying that font. The player who collects the most cards wins the game.
This edition is the “extension package” featuring only blackletter designs.
From top left to bottom right: Respira Black, FF Brokenscript, a couple letters from Breitkopf-Fraktur, Blackmoor, Claudius, an e and an exclamation mark from Old English, Wallau, Amador, Fakir, San Marco, American Text, Caslon-Gotisch, Engravers Old English, Marian Black, Fette Fraktur, Lucida Blackletter, JAF Herb, Gutenberg Textura, Alte Schwabacher, Goudy Text, Fette Kanzlei, and a tiny bit of Fette Gotisch. Featured in the game but not shown in the images are Deutsche Schrift and Wedding Text.
The box front features the title in Amador, with Clairvaux for the list of included typefaces. The Japanese font appears to be DNP Shuei ShogoMincho. The Font Karuta logo is in Akko.
The German-language game instructions are set in Gutenberg Textura with a headline in Blackmoor, in caps of alternating colors.
2 Comments on “Font Karuta, Blackletter extension”
But it’s not Dieter Steffmann’s Gutenberg Textura. Because his lines are rough, while the ones in the box are smooth.
Thanks for pointing this out, Kurt. You are right, it’s not the Gutenberg Textura as made Steffmann, but rather the typeface by the same name sold by SoftMaker. I’ve corrected the attribution.