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
editIndividual 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.
More Computer-set Examples
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Walbaum-Fraktur (1800)
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Humboldtfraktur (Hiero Rhode, 1938)
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Werbdeutsch (Herbert Thannhaeuser, 1934)
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Enlarged initial letter
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Fraktur compared to other typesets
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Fraktur compared to other typesets
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Breitkopf Fraktur
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Rudolf Koch
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Long s versus round s in Fraktur
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Common ligatures
Historical and Contemporary Usage
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Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th ed., Volume 1, p.1 of 16300+ pages in Walbaum-Fraktur (1885).
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Opening of a chapter with enlarged initial letter
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A page from H. C. Andersen's story Svinedrengen, printed in Fraktur
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Goethe's Faust in Fraktur
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Apotheken-A ist Fraktur-A, Bonn 2005