black letter

See also: blackletter and black-letter

English

The Gutenberg Bible, and all of Johannes Gutenberg's works were printed in blackletter type

Fraktur type. Detail from the dedication page of Goethe's Faust, a 1920 edition.

Alternative forms

blackletter, black-letter

Noun

black letter (countable and uncountable, plural black letters)

(typography) A Northern European style of type, with contrasting thick-and-thin, angular strokes forming upright letterforms, and usually set with a dark typographic colour on the page.
Text set in black-letter type.
(law) The basic standard elements for a particular field of law, which are generally known and free from doubt or dispute.

Synonyms

(typeface): gothic

Hyponyms

(typeface): bastarda, fraktur, Old English, quadrata, rotunda, Schwabacher, textura

Coordinate terms

(typeface): antiqua, whiteletter

Translations

a Northern-European style of type

French: Fraktur (fr)
German: Bruchschrift f, gebrochene Schrift f, Fraktur (de) f

Hungarian: gót betű

text set in black-letter type

German: Frakturtext m

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:black letter.

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