Blackletter is a typeface characterised by condensed lettering and tight spacing. The letterforms are dominated by evenly spaced verticals. The condensed style meant that the amount of costly materials used in book production were reduced.
Blackletter can often be referred to as Old English or Gothic, but these terms are not entirely accurate. Blackletter is actually a term to describe the scripts of the Middle Ages in which the darkness of the characters overpowers the whiteness of the page.
Textura and Rotunda are the two basic blackletter scripts and they are associated with both northern and southern Europe. Both of these scripts are book fonts.
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