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We have 29 free old english blackletter fonts to offer for direct downloading 1001 fonts is your favorite site for free fonts since 2001.

Blackletter font old english. Blackletter also known as gothic script or old english script is a calligraphic style which was popular for writing manuscripts and books in german speaking countries during the middle ages. The blackletter typeface also sometimes referred to as gothic fraktur or old english was used in the guthenburg bible one of the first books printed in europe. Lordish blackletter font a unique blackletter for your design. Blackletter fonts have letters that are very bold and ornate.

We have 308 free blackletter fonts to offer for direct downloading 1001 fonts is your favorite site for free fonts since 2001. The old english also known as blackletter dates back to 1000 years ago when it was used as a script throughout western europe. Includes uppercase lowercase and punctuations and. Introducing glossy calligraphy font.

Modern interpretation of blackletter script in the form of the font old english which includes several anachronistic glyphs such as arabic numerals ampersand instead of tironian et and several punctuation marks but lacks letter alternatives like long s and r rotunda scribal abbreviations and ligatures and contains several modernised letters such as x. Blackletter old english or gothic text is a style of script used for european languages beginning in the 12th century. A modern blackletter font by creativemedialab. Use gothic blackletter old english fonts on twitter facebook and more.

This style is now mostly used for decorative purposes for example to evoke an old word classical feel. During the 20th century blackletter type styles were adopted by new audiences and came to be associated with punk street art and heavy metal. Blackletter is also known as old english or gothic script. It should be noted that old english or blackletter has nothing to do with old english language nor the old english language written with blackletter.

It is a western calligraphy style that was used in europe from 1100s to the 1600s.