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  2. Gothic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Gothic alphabet is an alphabet for writing the Gothic language. It was developed in the 4th century AD by Ulfilas (or Wulfila), a Gothic preacher of Cappadocian Greek descent, for the purpose of translating the Bible. [a] The alphabet essentially uses uncial forms of the Greek alphabet, with a few additional letters to express Gothic ...

  3. Blackletter - Wikipedia

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    Not only were blackletter forms called Gothic script, but any other seemingly barbarian script, such as Visigothic, Beneventan, and Merovingian, were also labeled Gothic. This in contrast to Carolingian minuscule , a highly legible script which the humanists called littera antiqua ("the ancient letter"), wrongly believing that it was the script ...

  4. Visigothic script - Wikipedia

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    Visigothic script was a type of medieval script that originated in the Visigothic Kingdom in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula).Its more limiting alternative designations littera toletana and littera mozarabica associate it with scriptoria specifically in Toledo and with Mozarabic culture more generally, respectively.

  5. Gothic script - Wikipedia

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    Gothic script, typeface, letters, text or font may refer to: Blackletter an ornate calligraphic style originating in Western Europe. (Includes "Early Gothic", "Old English", Textura/Textualis, Cursiva and others.) Fraktur, a form of Blackletter; Schwabacher, a form of Blackletter; Gothic alphabet, the Greek-derived writing system of the Gothic ...

  6. Kurrent - Wikipedia

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    Alphabet in Kurrent script from about 1865. The next-to-last line shows the umlauts ä, ö, ü, and the corresponding capital letters Ae, Oe, and Ue; and the last line shows the ligatures ch, ck, th, sch, sz (), and st. Danish Kurrent script (»gotisk skrift«) from about 1800 with Æ and Ø at the end of the alphabet Sample font table of German handwriting by Kaushik Carlini, 2021

  7. Fraktur - Wikipedia

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    The shift affected mostly scientific writing in Germany, whereas most belletristic literature and newspapers continued to be printed in Fraktur. The Fraktur typefaces remained in use in Nazi Germany , when they were initially represented as true German script; official Nazi documents and letterheads employed the font, and the cover of Hitler 's ...

  8. Gothic language - Wikipedia

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    A few Gothic runic inscriptions were found across Europe, but due to early Christianization of the Goths, the Runic writing was quickly replaced by the newly invented Gothic alphabet. Ulfilas's Gothic, as well as that of the Skeireins and various other manuscripts, was written using an alphabet that was most likely invented by Ulfilas himself ...

  9. Rotunda (script) - Wikipedia

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    Calligraphic writing of the word "Rotunda" in the Italian script of same name. A 1570s rotunda typeface cut by Hendrik van den Keere for printer Christophe Plantin. The Rotunda is a specific medieval blackletter script. It originates in Carolingian minuscule. Sometimes, it is not considered a blackletter script, but a script on its own.

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