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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Black-letter law (redirect from Blackletter law)
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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Chancery hand (section Blackletter chancery)
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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popularised the Carolingian half-uncial forms which latter developed into blackletter ⟨ ⟩. Around 1300, letter case was increasingly distinguished, with upper-...
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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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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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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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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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Vox-ATypI classification (section Blackletter)
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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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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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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Sütterlin (category Blackletter)
historical form of German handwriting script that evolved alongside German blackletter (most notably Fraktur) typefaces. Graphic artist Ludwig Sütterlin was...
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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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Typeface (section Blackletter typefaces)
(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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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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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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Detail from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497) printed and rubricated in Strasbourg by Johann Grüninger...
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it has been overtaken by the pound sign (£), which is based on the blackletter form of the letter. In running text, its lower-case form (usually italicised)...
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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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face to the world, instead representing himself with a capital L in blackletter font. His real name, L Lawliet, is only revealed in the guidebook Death...
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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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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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phrase had been opposed to litterae modernae ("modern letters"), or blackletter. The humanist minuscule was connected to the humanistic content of the...
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transcription system symbols related to E: U+AB32 ꬲ LATIN SMALL LETTER BLACKLETTER E U+AB33 ꬳ LATIN SMALL LETTER BARRED E U+AB34 ꬴ LATIN SMALL LETTER E...
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Wallau (typeface) (category Blackletter typefaces)
Wallau is a grotesque blackletter typeface family by the German designer Rudolf Koch. It features restrained serifs and clear contrasts in line thickness...
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font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. Along with blackletter and roman type, it served as one of the major typefaces in the history...
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thanks to Wilhelm's influence that most printed material in Germany used blackletter instead of the Roman type used in the rest of Western Europe. At the...
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