fraktur

Noun

Meaning

Fraktur (plural Frakturs)

Alternative letter-case form of fraktur

(typography) A style of black letter type, used especially in Germany in the 16th to 20th centuries.

(US) A Pennsylvania German document style, incorporating watercolour illustration and fraktur lettering.

Examples

Zapf states “ This base line is too deep for a roman, as it was designed for the high x-height of the Fraktur and Textura letters. Source: Internet

Past A Russian dictionary from 1931, showing the "German alphabet" – the 3rd and 4th columns of each half are Fraktur and Kurrent respectively, with the footnote explaining ligatures used in Fraktur. Source: Internet

The Fraktur script used throughout Central Europe in the early modern period used a single slash as a scratch comma and a double slash (//) as a dash. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms