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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...
- [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...
- sans-serif (Sans, Sans Unicode, Grande, Sans Typewriter) and
scripts (
Blackletter, Calligraphy, Handwriting). Many are
released with
other software, most...
- 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...
- 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⟩...
- 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...
- po****rised the
Carolingian half-uncial
forms which latter developed into
blackletter ⟨ ⟩.
Around 1300,
letter case was
increasingly distinguished, with upper-...
-
roman is one of the
three main
kinds of
historical type,
alongside blackletter and italic.
Sometimes called normal or regular, it is
distinct from these...
- in 19th- and
early 20th-century Germany. In most
European countries,
blackletter typefaces like the
German Fraktur were
displaced with the
creation of...
- groups.
ATypI added two more classifications, the
blackletters and the Non-Latins. The
blackletters or German:
fraktur [fractured, broken],
which Vox...
