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Gothic & Blackletter
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Date: 30 July 2010
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Gothic & Blackletter Typefaces include types of German Fraktura and Gothic, Textura and possibly others based on 'manuscript hands' pre-dating the invention of printing with movable type. It has been argued that Gothic & Blackletter Typefaces, based on the principle of the historical development of Type, should come first in any classification system.
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