Blackletter | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 17/12/2018

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Blackletter


00:00:41 1 Origins
00:01:44 2 Etymology
00:02:53 3 Forms
00:03:02 3.1 Textualis
00:06:26 3.2 Schwabacher
00:07:09 3.3 Fraktur
00:10:07 3.4 Cursiva
00:11:32 3.5 Hybrida
00:12:03 3.6 Donatus-Kalender
00:12:35 4 Blackletter typesetting
00:13:33 5 National forms
00:13:42 5.1 England
00:13:50 5.1.1 iTextualis/i
00:15:34 5.1.2 iCursiva/i
00:16:30 5.2 France
00:16:38 5.2.1 iTextualis/i
00:17:15 5.2.2 iCursiva/i
00:17:51 5.3 Germany
00:18:56 5.3.1 iTextualis/i
00:20:13 5.3.2 iCursiva/i
00:20:53 5.4 Italy
00:21:01 5.4.1 iRotunda/i
00:21:42 5.4.2 iCursiva/i
00:22:15 5.5 The Netherlands
00:22:24 5.5.1 iTextualis/i
00:22:54 6 Unicode
00:24:31 7 See also



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Blackletter (sometimes black letter), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule, or Textura, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 to well into the 17th century. It continued to be used for the Danish language until 1875, and for German and Latvian until the 20th century. Fraktur is a notable script of this type, and sometimes the entire group of blackletter faces is incorrectly referred to as Fraktur. Blackletter is sometimes referred to as Old English, but it is not to be confused with the Old English language (or Anglo-Saxon), which predates blackletter by many centuries and was written in the insular script or in Futhorc.