black letter
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black letter
noun black letters · blackletter · black-letter
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A Northern European style of type based on the script, with contrasting thick-and-thin, angular strokes forming upright letterforms, and usually set with a dark typographic colour on the page.
Also we discovered what is still more curious, an English version of the black-letter Latin.
Similar: Gothic
- Text set in black-letter type.
- The basic standard elements for a particular field of law, which are generally known and free from doubt or dispute. It's black letter law, Your Honor, as black as it gets. Out-of-court statements used to support the truth of the facts stated are hearsay.
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noun a Northern-European style of type
| Español | letra gótica, letra de Tortis |
|---|---|
| Français | gothique |
| Deutsch | Bruchschrift, gebrochene Schrift, Fraktur, gotische Schrift |
noun text set in black-letter type
| Deutsch | Frakturtext |
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title = {black letter},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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