Gothic Scripts

  1. Typography in a Nutshell
  2. 3. Classification of Fonts
  3. 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:

  • Textualis

    Cursiva

    Schwabacher

    Fraktur

    Hybrida

Information on these sub-groups will be added shortly.

 

Examples of Gothic Scripts:

  • Textura

    Rotunda

    Schwabacher

    Fette Fraktur

    Claudius

    Rhapsody

 

Textualis
Schwabacher
Fraktur