Overview
There are two main kinds of what people tend to call Gothic letters: the German Frakturs and the English Blackletter. The Frakturs have an x that looks like an r with a mysterious disease, and the Blackletters have fiddly bits in the middle like those you see in this Old English Text. Little is known about the history of Old English Text, provided here by Monotype Typography, but it has been beautifully made. It looks remarkably like the famous Cloister Black designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1904.
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Fraktur (German: fʁakˈtuːɐ̯ ) is a calligraphic hand of the Latin alphabet and any of several blackletter typefaces derived from this hand. The blackletter lines are broken up; that is, their forms contain many angles when compared to the curves of the Antiqua (common) typefaces modeled after antique Roman square capitals and Carolingian minuscule. We have 27 free fraktur fonts to offer for direct downloading 1001 Fonts is your favorite site for free fonts since 2001.
File name | Oldengl.ttf |
Styles & Weights | Old English Text MT |
Designers | Monotype Type Drawing Office |
Copyright | Typeface © of The Monotype Corporation plc. Data © of The Monotype Corporation plc/Type Solutions Inc. 1990-91-92 All rights reserved. Portions © 1992 Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved. |
Font vendor | Agfa Monotype Corporation |
Script Tags | N/A |
Code pages | 1252 Latin 1 Mac Roman Macintosh Character Set (US Roman) |
Fixed pitch | False |
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