Blackletter
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Blackletter was originally a medieval book hand of the Gothic family of scripts, later adapted into typefaces and still used in modern calligraphy and typesetting.
The highest grade Gothic Textualis Prescissa book hand of the Malmsbury Abbey Vulgate, written in Belgium in 1407.
Page of a rare blackletter Bible, 1497, printed in Strasbourg by Johann Grüninger, then one of the city's most prolific printers. The red chapter initials were handwritten by a rubricator after printing.
Antiqua–Fraktur dispute
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The Antiqua–Fraktur dispute was a typographical dispute in 19th- and early 20th-century Germany.
Blackletter
…until the turn of the 20th century, Estonian and Latvian until the 1930s, and for the German language until the 1940s, when Adolf Hitler officially banned it in 1941. Fraktur is a notable script of this type, and sometimes the entire group of blackletter faces is referred to as Fraktur. Blackletter, although…
Two typefaces: the German text uses Fraktur; numerals and Latin and French words are written in Antiqua (1768).