Gothic Scripts
Font classification: Group 10
Brief summary of characteristics:
There's Gothic, Rotunda, Fraktur, Schwabacher, ... look like they're written with a pen, curves and anglular lines are "broken" (lines aren't necessarily connected).
Group 10: Gothic scripts:
These scripts are also caled Fraktur-scripts or Blackletters and trace back to the Gothic script. There was a kind of renaissance in the so-called "German Scripts", e.g. Schwabacher.
For a more well-defined classification, these fonts were sub-divided into 5 sub-groups:
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Textualis
Cursiva
Schwabacher
Fraktur
Hybrida
Information on these sub-groups will be added shortly.
Examples of Gothic Scripts:
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Textura
Rotunda
Schwabacher
Fette Fraktur
Claudius
Rhapsody
- Textualis
- Schwabacher
- Fraktur
