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  2. Blackletter - Wikipedia

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    For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Blackletter (sometimes black letter or black-letter), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule or Gothic type, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 until the 17th century. [1]

  3. Carolingian minuscule - Wikipedia

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    Carolingian minuscule. Example from 10th-century manuscript, Vulgate Luke 1:5–8. Carolingian minuscule or Caroline minuscule is a script which developed as a calligraphic standard in the medieval European period so that the Latin alphabet of Jerome 's Vulgate Bible could be easily recognized by the literate class from one region to another.

  4. Gothic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Gothic alphabet is an alphabet used 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. [1] The alphabet essentially uses uncial forms of the Greek alphabet, with a few additional letters to express Gothic ...

  5. Schwabacher - Wikipedia

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    A page from the Nuremberg Chronicle (Schedelsche Weltchronik), 1493. The German word Schwabacher (pronounced [ˈʃvaːˌbaxɐ]) refers to a specific style of blackletter typefaces which evolved from Gothic Textualis (Textura) under the influence of Humanist type design in Italy during the 15th century. Schwabacher typesetting was the most ...

  6. Humanist minuscule - Wikipedia

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    Humanist minuscule is a handwriting or style of script that was invented in secular circles in Italy, at the beginning of the fifteenth century. [1] ". Few periods in Western history have produced writing of such great beauty", observes the art historian Millard Meiss. [2] The new hand was based on Carolingian minuscule, which Renaissance ...

  7. Rotunda (script) - Wikipedia

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    Rotunda (script) Calligraphic writing of the word "Rotunda" in the Italian script of same name. 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. It was used mainly in southern Europe.

  8. List of typefaces - Wikipedia

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    Kurinto Font Folio (open source , pan-Unicode, 21 typefaces, 506 fonts; v2.196 (July 26, 2020) has coverage of most of Unicode v12.1 plus many auxiliary scripts including the UCSUR) LastResort (fallback font covering all 17 Unicode planes, included with Mac OS 8.5 and up) Lucida Grande (Unicode font included with macOS; includes 1,266 glyphs)*

  9. History of Western typography - Wikipedia

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    Handwritten letterforms of the mid-15th century calligraphy were the natural models for letterforms in systematized typography. [1] The scribal letter known as textur or textualis, produced by the strong gothic spirit of blackletter from the hands of German area scribes, served as the model for the first text types.

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