font_category: blackletter

Scriptura

Scriptura font

A fluid font drawn by hand.

Fraktur

Fraktur font

The standard German Fraktur textface of the last century, principally used today for mathematical setting.

Cloister Black

Cloister Black font

LTC Goudy Thirty

LTC Goudy Thirty font

Faust Text

Faust Text font

Barnhart Bros. and Spindler called this Faust Text when they introduced it in 1898. A quarter of a century later, they brought back a number of obsolete faces and renamed them. This one became...

Tertius

Tertius font

Tertius, with its high ascenders and clubbed serifs, is a modern interpretation of the classic Carolingian style (7th – 9th centuries AD). There was no capital form in the Carolinian hand and Roman square...

1495 Bastarde Lyon

1495 Bastarde Lyon font

Font designed from this who was used by an unknown printer in Lyon (France) to print the “Conte de Griseldis ” (Griseldis’ tale), from Petrarque, inspired by Boccace, in 1495. The original font has...

1532 Bastarde Lyon

1532 Bastarde Lyon font

Font designed from work by an anonymous printer in Lyon (France) to print the French popular novel Les Grandes et inestimables Chroniques du grand et enorme geant Gargantua […] in 1532. The original font...