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black letter

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black letter
n.
A heavy typeface with very broad counters and thick ornamental serifs. Also called gothic, Old English.
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black letter
black letter
n
(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Printing another name for Gothic [10]
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Noun1.black letter - a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
Gothic
font, fount, typeface, face, case - a specific size and style of type within a type family


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* with black letter, must recognise in the Clerk of Copmanhurst,
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Yet we do not need to read the words aloud, the sight of the black letters on the white page is enough.
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