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Blackletter for names, tattoo ideas, band names and game tags. Unicode calls it Fraktur, after the German typefaces it comes from.

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Tap any line to copy it. β˜† pins a style to the top on this device.

    Fraktur, blackletter, Old English, gothic

    All four names point at the same family of heavy, broken-stroke letters used across Europe from the Middle Ages and in Germany into the 20th century. Mathematicians kept Fraktur letters as symbols, which is why Unicode has them. Five capitals (β„­ β„Œ β„‘ β„œ ℨ) were already in the older Letterlike Symbols block and are borrowed from there.

    𝕺U+1D57AMathematical Bold Fraktur Capital O
    𝖑U+1D591Mathematical Bold Fraktur Small L
    𝖉U+1D589Mathematical Bold Fraktur Small D
    Bold Fraktur has every letter, so it’s the safer choice for names.

    Thinking of a tattoo? Don’t ink a screenshot of these characters. Ask the artist to draw it in a real blackletter typeface such as Old English Text or UnifrakturMaguntia: the letter shapes will be consistent and legible.

    Questions

    What is the Old English font called?
    The style is blackletter. The Unicode letters here are called Fraktur. Popular real fonts in this style include Old English Text and UnifrakturMaguntia.
    Why do some gothic letters look different?
    Five Fraktur capitals come from an older Unicode block than the rest, and fonts can draw them differently.