Fraktur

Letter glyphs

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.

Ligatures

• 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

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  Walbaum-Fraktur (1800)
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  Humboldtfraktur (Hiero Rhode, 1938)
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  Werbdeutsch (Herbert Thannhaeuser, 1934)
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  Enlarged initial letter
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  Fraktur compared to other typesets
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  Fraktur compared to other typesets
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  Breitkopf Fraktur
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  Rudolf Koch
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  Long s versus round s in Fraktur
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  Common ligatures

Historical and Contemporary Usage

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  Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th ed., Volume 1, p.1 of 16300+ pages in Walbaum-Fraktur (1885).
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  Opening of a chapter with enlarged initial letter
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  A page from H. C. Andersen's story Svinedrengen, printed in Fraktur
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  Goethe's Faust in Fraktur
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  Apotheken-A ist Fraktur-A, Bonn 2005