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Blackletter (sometimes black letter or black-letter), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule or Gothic type, ... Here is the entire alphabet in Fraktur ...
A modern sans-serif and four blackletter typefaces (left to right): Textur(a), Rotunda, Schwabacher and Fraktur. Fraktur (German: [fʁakˈtuːɐ̯] ⓘ) is a calligraphic hand of the Latin alphabet and any of several blackletter typefaces derived from this hand.
Blackletter an ornate calligraphic style originating in Western Europe. (Includes "Early Gothic", "Old English", Textura/Textualis, Cursiva and others.) Fraktur, a form of Blackletter; Schwabacher, a form of Blackletter; Gothic alphabet, the Greek-derived writing system of the Gothic language
Blackletter typefaces. Similar to Rotunda, the rounded Schwabacher types were nearer to handwriting than the former Textualis style, though it also includes sharp edges. The lower-case g and upper-case H have particularly distinctive forms. In the context of German language texts, Schwabacher appeared vibrant and popular.
Blackletter E Teuthonista [4] ꬳ Barred E ꬴ E with flourish Ǝ ᴲ ǝ: Turned E Pan-Nigerian alphabet: Anii alphabet [11] / ə ~ ɨ / Awing alphabet [12] / e ~ ə / Kanuri alphabet [13] Lama alphabet [14] Lukpa alphabet [15] Turka alphabet ⱻ Small capital turned E Finno-Ugric transcription (FUT) [2] Ə ə ₔ ᵊ: Schwa IPA, Yom alphabet /ə/
Sütterlin is based on older German handwriting, which is a handwriting form of the Blackletter scripts such as Fraktur and Schwabacher, the German print scripts used at the same time. It includes the long s (ſ) as well as several standard ligatures such as ff (f-f), ſt (ſ-t), st (s-t), and ß (ſ-z or ſ-s).
Example of etc. typeset with r rotunda in a Fraktur typeface. The abbreviation etc. was typeset using the Tironian et ⁊ , as ⁊c. in early incunables.Later, when typesets no longer contained a sort for the Tironian et, it became common practice to use the r rotunda glyph instead, setting ꝛc. for etc. [1] [failed verification]
Fette Fraktur is a blackletter typeface of the sub-classification Fraktur designed by the German punchcutter Johann Christian Bauer (1802–1867) in 1850. The C.E. Weber Foundry published a version in 1875, and the D Stempel AG foundry published the version shown here in 1908.