Blackletter
ブラックレター / 12th century– / Style / Letterform History
L’écriture manuscrite condensée en lettres noires et verticales, emplissant la page d’une obscurité tissée et régulière — aussi le premier caractère de l’imprimerie.
Traits verticaux denses / Courbes remplacées par des brisures / Forte noirceur / Capitales ornementales
Entrée du dictionnaire
- Usages idéaux
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Typographie
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Matière
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Précaution
- Not a sign for 'old' or 'menacing.' Remember its history of religious, national and political use.
- Pour approfondir
- The Gutenberg 42-line Bible / Textura, Fraktur and Rotunda / the 20th-century German Fraktur dispute