Black-Out is the work of Eli Carrico, a multi-disciplinary designer residing in Los Angeles. It debuted in the book Bohemian Modern by Barbara Bestor and has gone on to be a popular typeface for print, web and motion graphic work.

Black–Out is a result of three things: the need for a distinctive ultra-black display typeface, an admiration for slab-serifs and Clarendons, and the love of systematic stencil type. Fusing all the desires together resulted in Black–Out. It is a massive chunk of type, contemporary in nature while also harking back to the sun-drenched Modernism of California of the 1970s.