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Bastarda is a calligraphy font with ornate, traditional blackletter forms drawn from medieval manuscripts. The strokes are heavy and angular, dense with the spiky detail of old scribal hands, carrying a ceremonial, historic weight. It reads as formal and richly decorative, rooted in old craft.
Bastarda works for formal certificates, heritage branding, gothic posters, and invitations that want a classic, ceremonial character. The font is free to download as a TrueType file, and you can preview it with your own text to see how the blackletter forms read in your wording.
Personal use only
Bastarda is free to download. Most fonts on fontgenerator.net are free for personal use, and many are free for commercial use as well. Open the license file included in the Bastarda download to confirm the exact terms before using it in a commercial or for-profit project.
Yes, Bastarda is free to download from fontgenerator.net. The download is a TrueType (.ttf) file and includes the font's license so you can check the terms for personal and commercial use.
Bastarda is a TrueType (.ttf) font supplied inside a .zip archive. It works on Windows, macOS, Linux, and in apps like Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, Canva, and Microsoft Word.
Unzip the download, double-click Bastarda.ttf, and click Install. Once installed, Bastarda appears in the font menu of all your applications.
Yes. Type anything into the preview box at the top of this page and it renders instantly in Bastarda so you can see how your text looks before downloading.