used as a descriptive term to distinguish the heavy, thick typeface from the thinner "white letter" or humanistic scripts also in use at the time. An alternative etymology suggests the script, written large, bold and black, came to be associated with mourning or with inauspicious times -- hence 'black-letter' days.

Gothic type is named after the Gothic script.

Blackletter script should not be confused with either the ancient

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