Gothic script
Appearance
Gothic typeface
Fraktur, a blackletter typeface
"Old English", a blackletter typeface
Century Gothic, a sans-serif typeface
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Gothic script, letters, text, typeface or font may refer to:
- Gothic alphabet, the Greek-derived writing system of the Gothic language
- Visigothic script, a script style used by the Visigoths in Iberia for writing Latin
- Gothic script (palaeography), a family of handwriting scripts that originally developed from Caroline minuscule in Western Europe in the late 11th century
- Blackletter, an ornate calligraphic style of Gothic script
- Fraktur, a form of Blackletter
- Schwabacher, a form of Blackletter
- Blackletter, an ornate calligraphic style of Gothic script
- Sans-serif, or gothic, a typographical style without serif decorations. In typography, this is the meaning usually associated with the term gothic type, for example Century Gothic.
- East Asian Gothic typeface, a Chinese, Japanese or Korean typographical style without serifs or analogous decorations
See also
[edit]- Script typeface
- Gothic revival - a style of architecture that often included ornamental letters cut in a blackletter-like style
- Display typeface - typefaces used for titles (such as on buildings) rather than for running text,