Gothic script

Gothic script, letters, text, typeface or font may refer to:

• Gothic alphabet, the Greek-derived writing system of the Gothic language
• Visigothic script, a script style used by the Visigoths in Iberia for writing Latin
• Gothic script (palaeography), a family of handwriting scripts that originally developed from Caroline minuscule in Western Europe in the late 11th century
  • Blackletter, an ornate calligraphic style of Gothic script
    • Fraktur, a form of Blackletter
    • Schwabacher, a form of Blackletter
• Sans-serif, or gothic, a typographical style without serif decorations. In typography, this is the meaning usually associated with the term gothic type, for example Century Gothic.
  • East Asian Gothic typeface, a Chinese, Japanese or Korean typographical style without serifs or analogous decorations

Gothic typeface

Fraktur, a blackletter typeface

"Old English", a blackletter typeface

Century Gothic, a sans-serif typeface

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See also

• Script typeface
• Gothic revival - a style of architecture that often included ornamental letters cut in a blackletter-like style
  • Display typeface - typefaces used for titles (such as on buildings) rather than for running text,