Gothic
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Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
People and languages
[edit]- Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
- Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
- Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken by the Crimean Goths, also extinct
- Gothic alphabet, one of the alphabets used to write the Gothic language
- Gothic (Unicode block), a collection of Unicode characters of the Gothic alphabet
Art and architecture
[edit]- Gothic art, a Medieval art movement
- Gothic architecture
- Gothic Revival architecture (Neo-Gothic)
- Raygun Gothic a retrofuturist visual style coined by William Gibson in 1981
Romanticism
[edit]- Gothic fiction or Gothic Romanticism, a literary genre
Entertainment
[edit]- Gothic (film), a 1986 film by Ken Russell
- Gothic (series), a video game series originally developed by Piranha Bytes
- Gothic (video game), a 2001 video game developed by Piranha Bytes
- Gothic II, a 2002 video game developed by Piranha Bytes
- Gothic II: Night of the Raven, a 2003 expansion pack for Gothic II, developed by Piranha Bytes
- Gothic 3, a 2006 video game developed by Piranha Bytes
- Gothic (Remake), an upcoming remake of 2001 video game by Alkimia Interactive
- Gothika, a 2003 American supernatural psychological horror thriller film
Modern culture and lifestyle
[edit]- Goth subculture, a music-cultural scene
Music
[edit]- Gothic rock, a genre of rock music
- Gothic metal, a genre of heavy metal music
- Symphony No. 1 "The Gothic" (Brian), a symphony by Havergal Brian
- Gothic (Paradise Lost album), 1991
- Gothic (Nox Arcana album), 2015
Typography
[edit]- The term "Gothic" is sometimes misused of Blackletter typefaces, a script historically used throughout Central and Western Europe, resembling mediaeval scribal writing.
- Sans-serif or Gothic typefaces, an unadorned font style, that lacks "serifs" at the ends of strokes
- East Asian Gothic typeface, the "sans-serif" equivalent for East Asian writing systems
- Block letters or Gothic writing, a style of writing alphabetic scripts and abjads in which characters are individual glyphs without joining
Transport
[edit]- SS Gothic (1893), a White Star Line ship
- SS Gothic (1947), a Corinthic-class passenger and cargo liner
Other
[edit]- Gothic (moth), a species of nocturnal moth
- Gothic Line, a World War II defensive line
- Gothics, one of the Adirondack High Peaks in New York
- Gothic F.C., a football club in Norwich, England
- New Gothic, a contemporary art movement
- Batman: Gothic, a 1990 comic book story arc
- Gothic plate armour, a style of armour used in the 15th century
- "Gothic", a Series G episode of the television series QI (2010)