Fraktur
Letter glyphs[edit]
Individual images for all the Latin alphabet letters and numerals in Fraktur script, shown here in Unicode order. All images are set in 30pt Fette Deutsche Schrift, using the font available to the public domain at moorstation.org, linked from the English Wikipedia article en:Fraktur.
Ligatures[edit]
- Minuscule C followed by minuscule H:
- Minuscle C followed by minuscule K:
- Miniscule S followed by minuscule C and miniscule H:
- Long S doubled:
- Long S followed by miniscule T:
- Letter Eszett (originally a ligature of S and Z):
- Miniscule T doubled:
- Miniscule T followed by miniscule Z:
More Computer-set Examples[edit]
Walbaum-Fraktur (1800)
Humboldtfraktur (Hiero Rhode, 1938)
Werbdeutsch (Herbert Thannhaeuser, 1934)
Enlarged initial letter
Fraktur compared to other typesets
Fraktur compared to other typesets
Breitkopf Fraktur
Rudolf Koch
Long s versus round s in Fraktur
Common ligatures
Historical and Contemporary Usage[edit]
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th ed., Volume 1, p.1 of 16300+ pages in Walbaum-Fraktur (1885).
Opening of a chapter with enlarged initial letter
A page from H. C. Andersen's story Svinedrengen, printed in Fraktur
Goethe's Faust in Fraktur
Apotheken-A ist Fraktur-A, Bonn 2005
