Fraktur

calligraphic hand of the Latin alphabet (or blackletter typeface derived from it) whose letterforms contain many angles compared to Antiqua and Carolingian minuscule

Letter glyphs edit

Individual images for all the Latin alphabet letters and numerals in Fraktur script, shown here in Unicode order. All images are set in 30pt Fette Deutsche Schrift, using the font available to the public domain at moorstation.org, linked from the English Wikipedia article en:Fraktur.

                             

 

Ligatures edit

  • Minuscule C followed by minuscule H:  
  • Minuscle C followed by minuscule K:  
  • Miniscule S followed by minuscule C and miniscule H:  
  • Long S doubled:  
  • Long S followed by miniscule T:  
  • Letter Eszett (originally a ligature of S and Z):  
  • Miniscule T doubled:  
  • Miniscule T followed by miniscule Z:  

More Computer-set Examples edit

Historical and Contemporary Usage edit