Arsenal unveiled the Rocastle typeface, a blackletter developed with designer David Rudnick at his studio Terrain, at the Arsenal by Design exhibition at London’s Design Museum on 10 and 11 October 2026, as reported by SoccerBible.
A typeface named after a club legend
Rocastle honours David Rocastle, the Arsenal midfielder nicknamed “Rocky.” Rudnick spent more than four years developing it, drawing from historical coats of arms, Gothic typefaces, paper season tickets, match programmes, and fan memorabilia. Johnnie Campbell, Arsenal’s Creative Studio Lead, joined Rudnick at the exhibition to discuss the project. Rocastle joins two other typefaces already in Arsenal’s system, Northbank for match related use and Chapman for community use, and the club says it will reserve the new face for major cultural moments rather than everyday use. A companion piece, The Capital, a standalone letter “A” that complements the club’s crest, was unveiled alongside it.
A football club just proved a typeface can carry as much institutional memory as a crest.
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What to watch
Watch where Rocastle actually appears first, since a typeface reserved for “major cultural moments” is a promise that only means something once a club keeps it.
