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    Blackletter (sometimes black letter or black-letter), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule or Gothic type, was a script used throughout Western...
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    Fraktur (category Blackletter)
    [fʁakˈtuːɐ̯] ) is a calligraphic hand of the Latin alphabet and any of several blackletter typefaces derived from this hand. It is designed such that the beginnings...
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    Lucida (redirect from Lucida Blackletter)
    sans-serif (Sans, Sans Unicode, Grande, Sans Typewriter) and scripts (Blackletter, Calligraphy, Handwriting). Many are released with other software, most...
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    to the practice of setting law books and citing legal precedents in blackletter type, a tradition that survived long after the switch to Roman and italic...
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    orthography, represented as a ligature of ⟨ſ⟩ (long s) and ⟨ʒ⟩ (tailed z) in blackletter typefaces, yielding ⟨ſʒ⟩. This developed from an earlier usage of ⟨z⟩...
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    B
    popularised the Carolingian half-uncial forms which latter developed into blackletter ⟨  ⟩. Around 1300, letter case was increasingly distinguished, with upper-...
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    and to England after 1350. This early "chancery hand" is a form of blackletter. Versions of it were adopted by royal and ducal chanceries, which were...
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    L
    curve to the right at the bottom of the lowercase letter ell. In the blackletter type used in England until the seventeenth century, the letter L is written...
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    in 19th- and early 20th-century Germany. In most European countries, blackletter typefaces like the German Fraktur were displaced with the creation of...
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  • groups. ATypI added two more classifications, the blackletters and the Non-Latins. The blackletters or German: fraktur [fractured, broken], which Vox...
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    O
    symbols related to O: U+AB3D ꬽ LATIN SMALL LETTER BLACKLETTER O U+AB3E ꬾ LATIN SMALL LETTER BLACKLETTER O WITH STROKE U+AB3F ꬿ LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O...
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    roman is one of the three main kinds of historical type, alongside blackletter and italic. Sometimes called normal, it is distinct from these two for...
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    later came to sometimes be used for Roman type in general as opposed to blackletter; in German, it used of serif typefaces in particular. Berne Nadall (1869–1932)...
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    typeface Gothic script, typeface, letters, text or font may refer to: Blackletter an ornate calligraphic style originating in Western Europe. (Includes...
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    A
    Blackletter Uncial Roman Italic Script...
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    Sütterlin (category Blackletter)
    historical form of German handwriting that evolved alongside German blackletter (most notably Fraktur) typefaces. Graphic artist Ludwig Sütterlin was...
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    (in the context of Latin-script fonts), one can differentiate Roman, Blackletter, and Gaelic types. Roman types are in the most widespread use today,...
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    Rotunda (script) (category Blackletter)
    is a specific medieval blackletter script. It originates in Carolingian minuscule. Sometimes, it is not considered a blackletter script, but a script on...
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    Athletics played in the American Association from 1882 to 1891. The familiar blackletter "A" is one of the oldest sports logos still in use. An image in Harper's...
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    entertainment, and one on advertising." Aside from the switch from its blackletter typeface in 1946, the newspaper has changed little since the 1930s. Only...
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    reading secretary hand. Writing portal Bastarda – Blackletter script used in France and Germany Blackletter – Historic European script and typeface Book hand –...
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    Page from a 14th-century Psalter, with blackletter "sine pedibus" text....
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    R
    Use of r rotunda was mostly tied to blackletter typefaces, and the glyph fell out of use along with blackletter fonts in English language contexts mostly...
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  • Henry Jarvis Raymond sought to model The London Times, which used a Blackletter style called Textura, popularized following the fall of the Western Roman...
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    „Guten Morgen!“. Until the early 20th century, German was printed in blackletter typefaces (in Fraktur, and in Schwabacher), and written in corresponding...
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    Detail from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497) printed and rubricated in Strasbourg by Johann Grüninger...
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    except for the countries that continued to use blackletter typefaces such as Fraktur. When blackletter type fell out of general use in the mid-20th century...
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    Larsson's rune cipher resembling that found on the Kensington Runestone. Also includes runically unrelated blackletter writing style and pigpen cipher....
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  • DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN (used in ancient Near-Eastern linguistics and in blackletter typefaces) U+30FB ・ KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT (has the Unicode property of...
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    Schwabacher (category Blackletter)
    Schwabacher (pronounced [ˈʃvaːˌbaxɐ]) refers to a specific style of blackletter typefaces which evolved from Gothic Textualis (Textura) under the influence...
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