Stylogeny

Typography · Scripts & hands

Blackletter

Gothic textura and fraktur forms.

A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under typography: what do the letters look like, and how are they set?

styles make it
17
as a defining choice
2
as a usual one
6
now and then
9
avoid it
14

Styles defined by it 2

For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.

Styles that often use it 6

A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.

Styles that use it now and then 9

An occasional choice in these styles.

It often goes with

Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.

Styles that avoid it

Styles that deliberately leave it out.

Other choices in typography