By the 1100s, more people were reading. So, scribes had to find faster ways to write books. The blackletter style was formed with fewer loops and flourishes. Its lines are big, bold, compact and sharp. The curves are seen only at the end of the word. We cannot read them, but blackletter handwriting had several variations. They lasted for hundreds of years. They were named blackletter in the 1600s, to distinguish them from the lighter typefaces that began to be used.
Blackletter is also known as Gothic script because it resembled the script left by ancient Geramanic tribes. The blackletter style was popular for a long time in Germany. It was adopted as the official typeface of the Nazi party, until it was banned in 1941, during World War II. Examples of the typeface can be seen in Germany, England (Ye Olde Shoppe) and Austria.
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