Gotica Moderna/modern Gothic (Fraktur, German Text)

[Columba Livia]

Source: Prof. Giovanni Tonso's "Modelli Di Calligrafia", first published in 1898 (out of copyright).

 

The letters would be written a broad edged pen, and the flourishes and tendrils around the capitals and the fine lines on b, y &c. would be executed with a fine pointed flexible pen like the Gilott 303, Principle EF or the Hunt 22.

 

You can of course leave them out if you want to.

 

http://i.imgur.com/44i1E.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/DXEai.jpg

Edited August 6, 2012 by Columba Livia

[waterproof]

Excuse me, can you tell me why you use both Fraktur and German Text to discribe this style of Gothic?

Though they two look much alike, for all I know, they are different.Is German Text a variant of Fraktur? I want to hear your opinion.

[Columba Livia]

Excuse me, can you tell me why you use both Fraktur and German Text to discribe this style of Gothic?

Though they two look much alike, for all I know, they are different.Is German Text a variant of Fraktur? I want to hear your opinion.

 

German text is what Fraktur lettering was called in Britain and America till the late 19th early 20th century (as far as I can tell). Based on this plates, it may have been referred to as Gotica Moderna in Italy.

 

Different countries and different authors and calligraphers no doubt had their own variants and individual terms for what is roughly the same thing.

[Najdorf]

I must say i dont recognize all the capitals,

can someone write the order of the capitals?

[ljkd13]

I can't seem to find the J, but everything else is in this order:

 

I F L E H K C G O Q T X

V U A Y N W M P B

R D Z S

 

Unless I've missed something.

[Pincel]

I can't seem to find the J, but everything else is in this order:

 

I F L E H K C G O Q T X

V U A Y N W M P B

R D Z S

 

Unless I've missed something.

 

Iust use I for J and they could still read it--I and J were interchangeable in those old times.

 

Ben