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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    typeface Gothic script, typeface, letters, text or font may refer to: Blackletter (Gothic minuscule, 'Old English') an ornate calligraphic or typographical...
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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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    A
    Blackletter Uncial Roman Italic Script...
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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 that evolved alongside German blackletter (most notably Fraktur) typefaces. Graphic artist Ludwig Sütterlin was...
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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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  • 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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    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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    (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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  • 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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    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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    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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    „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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    Wordless open semantic form of writing Bastarda – Blackletter script used in France and Germany Blackletter – Historic European script and typeface Book hand –...
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  • crest featuring the same style of cannon below the club's name, set in blackletter typography, and above the coat of arms of the Metropolitan Borough of...
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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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    Bastarda (category Blackletter)
    Bastarda or bastard was a blackletter script used in France, the Burgundian Netherlands and Germany during the 14th and 15th centuries. The Burgundian...
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    evolved from the letter L (written until the seventeenth century in blackletter type as L {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {L}}} ) standing for libra, a Roman...
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