Gothic type
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Gothic type
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139104
- info:lc/authorities/sh85139104
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85139104#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Black letter type
- Blackletter
- Old English type
- Type and type-founding--Gothic type
- Type and type-founding--Old English type
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
Related Terms
Earlier Established Forms
- Old English type
- Type and type-founding--Gothic type
- Type and type-founding--Old English type
Sources
- found: Britannica Micro.: v. 2, p. 256 (black letter, also called Gothic script or Old English script, in calligraphy, style of alphabet used throughout Latin Christendom from the early 9th century to the humanistic revival of the Renaissance; black letter, along with roman, was one of the two dominant letter shapes of medieval typography; roman type superseded black letter throughout Europe except in Germany)
- found: Web. 3 (black letter, a style of type or lettering characterized by a heavy face and angular outlines; used chiefly by the earliest European printers and sometimes for the printing of German; called also Gothic, Old English)
- found: Blackletter : type and national identity, 1998.
- found: Merriam Webster WWW site, Aug. 29, 2008 (black letter (black-letter; blackletter)
- found: Google, Aug. 29, 2008 (black letter: 399,000 hits; blackletter: 55,100 hits)
LC Classification
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 2008-12-02: revised
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