Blackletter

Rarity: Uncommon

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Blackletter (also black letter or sometimes black-letter; popularly known as Gothic) was originally a medieval book hand (Textualis or Textura) of the Gothic family of scripts, later adapted into typefaces and still used in modern calligraphy and typesetting.

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