Category: fraktur
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URW Ruca Font
Ruca FontSince my first contact with blackletters in 1999, I became more and more fascinated by these artistic looking typefaces. It all started in the USA at the age of 16, when I took an art class. I decided to trace some blackletter typefaces because they looked very interesting. From…
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URW Holland Gothic Font
Holland Gothic FontBlackletter fonts are timelessly beautiful and still very popular. At some point, it seems that every type designer discovers the beauty of these forms and the great pleasure in creating blackletter characters. Like also Dutch designer Coen Hofmann who, after designing Caxtonian Gothic, has designed yet another Blackletter…
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Black Baron Font
Black Baron by HeadfontsInspired by Gothic and Old English typefaces, BLACK BARON is an upper and lowercase modern blackletter font. This font has a dense black appearance, slightly decorated caps, angular forms, serifs and thick to thin strokes. Black Baron is best used as a decorative display font for magazines,…
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New Bayreuth Font
New Bayreuth by URWNew Bayreuth is a new and improved version of the original Bayreuth font (Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler, 1932). New Bayreuth was reworked, redesigned, completed and digitally remastered by Ralph M. Unger for URW++, based on specimen taken from old font catalogues. Besides Ganz Grobe Gotisch and Legende,…
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URW Fette Fraktur Font
Fette Fraktur by URWA standard design first cut by Johann Christian Bauer in 1850 as Neue fette Fraktur [Helzel]. Available from most German foundries in the late 19th and early 20th century, in numerous hardly distinguishable versions, often simply named Fette Fraktur. See also Normal-Fraktur. Among digital versions, Linotype’s version (shown) has the “latinized”…
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URW Alte Schwabacher Font
Alte Schwabacher by URWA generic entry for the style of Schwabacher that evolved around 1650 [Kapr]. Often named Alte Schwabacher to distinguish it from Neue Schwabacher. Versions of this style were carried by most German foundries. C.F. Rühl had a version of note that was later continued by Berthold. In 1926, various interpretations with different…
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