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Gothic font generator

Type your text and get it in the heavy, pointed lettering of old newspaper headlines. Two gothic styles sit at the top, with every other style below.

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This makes styled text out of special characters. It is not a font file, and some screen readers read it badly, so use it for decoration only.

Showing a sample. Type above to see your own text.

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Example

The text Hello, world in this style:

Fraktur, gothic
ℌ𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔬, 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔩𝔡
Bold fraktur, gothic
𝕳𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔, 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉

Gothic means blackletter here

The letters are Fraktur, a blackletter style from German printing. People call it gothic, Old English or blackletter. In typography, "gothic" can also mean plain sans-serif typefaces such as Franklin Gothic, which look nothing like this, so the word is slippery.

Fraktur and bold fraktur

Fraktur is the lighter version. Bold fraktur is thicker and holds up better when it is small. Both cover capitals and lowercase letters, and bold fraktur also covers digits. Plain fraktur leaves numbers as ordinary digits.

Some capitals use older symbols

C, H, I, R and Z in plain fraktur are stored as separate symbols from earlier in Unicode's history. They match the rest on most devices. If one looks off, try bold fraktur, which has no exceptions.

Not for tattoos or print

Blackletter is hard to read when it is lowercase and fancy, and these are copy-and-paste characters with no control over spacing. For a tattoo, a logo or anything printed, use a proper blackletter font and check the letters with a designer.

Questions

Is gothic the same as Old English?

People use the names for the same look. Old English Text is also the name of one particular font. What you get here is Unicode Fraktur letters, not that font.

Why does the text look thin or uneven on my screen?

Your device draws these characters with whatever font it has for them, so the thickness and spacing vary from device to device.

Can I use it in a game name or username?

Sometimes. Many games and sites only allow plain letters and numbers, so try pasting it first.

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