Many early typefaces were modelled on local forms of writing or derived from the various European forms of Gothic script, but there were also some derived from documentary scripts ( such as most of Caxton's types ), and, particularly in Italy, types modelled on handwritten scripts and calligraphy employed by humanists.

* January 3 – A decree in Germany outlaws the use of Blackletter Gothic typefaces in favour of Antiqua.

This is similar to the digit 1 found in Morris Fuller Benton's typefaces News Gothic and Franklin Gothic which are sans-serif like Verdana.

Similarly, the term " Fraktur " or " Gothic " is sometimes applied to all of the blackletter typefaces ( known in German as Gebrochene Schrift ).

* Museum of Modern Art, New York City-features 23 digital typefaces for their permanent collection, including five Emigre font families: Jeffery Keedy's Keedy Sans, Jonathan Barnbrook's Mason Serif, Barry Deck's Template Gothic, Zuzana Licko's Oakland ( renamed Lo-Res in 2001 ), and P. Scott Makela's Dead History.

He attempted to fuse the Gothic and the roman typefaces.

Middle High German texts are written in the Latin alphabet, in Gothic minuscules that evolved into the Fraktur typefaces of the Early Modern period.

Frederic W. Goudy ( Bloomington, Illinois, March 8, 1865 – Marlborough-on-Hudson, May 11, 1947 ) was a prolific American type designer whose typefaces include Copperplate Gothic, Kennerly, and Goudy Old Style.

The black letter must not be confused either with the ancient alphabet of the Gothic language, nor with the sans-serif typefaces that are also sometimes called Gothic.

The majority of listings are plain and in small black text, usually in the Bell Gothic or Bell Centennial typefaces.

Benton was America's most prolific type designer, having completed 221 typefaces, ranging from revivals of historical models like ATF Bodoni, to adding new weights to existing faces such as Goudy Old Style and Cheltenham, and to designing original designs such as Hobo, Bank Gothic, and Broadway.

Benton's large family of related neogrotesque sans-serif typefaces, known as " gothics " as was the norm at the time, includes Alternate Gothic, Franklin Gothic, and News Gothic.

The term “ gothic ” is now rare in English, having been largely replaced by " sans-serif " except in the names of some typefaces such as " Century Gothic ".

He has crafted over 600 typefaces including Tiffany, Bookman, Panache, Edwardian Script, and the self-titled typefaces Benguiat and Benguiat Gothic.

Franklin Gothic and its related faces are realist sans-serif typefaces originated by Morris Fuller Benton ( 1872 – 1948 ) in 1902.

Franklin Gothic is an extra-bold sans-serif type which can be distinguished from other sans serif typefaces, as it has a more traditional double-story g and a.

Because there is no active descendant of the American Type Founders Corporation making digital typefaces, News Gothic has been revived in digital form in many different versions from different sources.

Ermanaric (; ; ; ; died 376 ) was a Greuthungian Gothic King who before the Hunnic invasion evidently ruled an enormous area north of the Black Sea.

The Gothic Line (; ) formed Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's last major line of defence in the final stages of World War II along the summits of the Apennines during the fighting retreat of German forces in Italy against the Allied Armies in Italy commanded by General Sir Harold Alexander.

Königsberg Cathedral (; ) is a Brick Gothic style church in Kaliningrad ( formerly Königsberg ) on an island in the Pregel ( Pregolya ).

* Fortified Church (; )-constructed in the 14th century in the Gothic style

Karlštejn Castle (; ) is a large Gothic castle founded 1348 AD by Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor-elect and King of Bohemia.

* Victorian Britain, 1837 – 1901, covering the later phases of the Gothic Revival, French influences, Classical and Renaissance revivals, Aestheticism, Japanese style, the continuing influence of China, India, and the Islamic world, the Arts and Crafts movement and the Scottish School.

Harajuku street style is promoted in Japanese and international publications such as Kera, Tune, Gothic & Lolita Bible and Fruits.

The film features strong classical Western overtones and memorable voice-acting performances in both English and Japanese, most especially in regards to the title character, D. It was ground-breaking in that it effectively brought together elements of Gothic horror and dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction in a Western framework that some have argued appears to be largely a homage to the film Shane.

Japanese civil engineers incorporated features of the Neo-Classical, Gothic and Gothic Revival styles often encountered on European university campuses.

The Pacific Media Expo ( PMX ) is a multi-genre convention in California that focuses on anime and manga, Japanese rock and pop, Gothic Lolita, Japanese drama / Korean drama, Asian cinema and East Asian / Pacific Rim pop cultures.

Kozuka Gothic is a Japanese typeface, designed as a sans-serif companion to Kozuka Mincho family.

After a couple of self-released cassette albums, the Japanese Org label released Maher Goes To Gothic Country ( 1991 ) and the 83-track box set Return Visit to Rock Mass ( 1996 ).

One, the ABCDE order later used in Phoenician, has continued with minor changes in Hebrew, Greek, Armenian, Gothic, Cyrillic, and Latin ; the other, HMĦLQ, was used in southern Arabia and is preserved today in Ethiopic.

This, combined with their post-battle rewards, prompted them to raise Alaric " on a shield " and proclaim him king ; according to Jordanes ( a Gothic historian of varying importance, depending upon who is asked ), both the new king and his people decided " rather to seek new kingdoms by their own work, than to slumber in peaceful subjection to the rule of others.

The contemporary ecclesiastics recorded with wonder many instances of the Visigoths ' clemency: Christian churches saved from ravage ; protection granted to vast multitudes both of pagans and Christians who took refuge therein ; vessels of gold and silver which were found in a private dwelling, spared because they " belonged to St. Peter "; at least one case in which a beautiful Roman matron appealed, not in vain, to the better feelings of the Gothic soldier who attempted her dishonor.

Stilicho is alleged by some to have wanted control of both Emperors, and is supposed to have had Rufinus assassinated by Gothic mercenaries in 395 ; though definite proof of Stilicho's involvement in the assassination is lacking, the intense competition and political jealousies engendered by the two figures compose the main thread of the first part of Arcadius ' reign.

Broadway then runs past the proposed uptown campus of Columbia University, and the main campus of CUNY — City College ; the beautiful Gothic buildings of the original City College campus are out of sight, a block to the east.

Until World War II there were many Gothic, renaissance and baroque houses in Elbląg's Old Town ; some of them are reconstructed.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ; or, the Modern Prometheus ( 1818 ) has come to define Gothic fiction in the Romantic period.

Shelley published a second Gothic novel in 1811, St. Irvyne ; or, The Rosicrucian, about an alchemist who seeks to impart the secret of immortality.

The 7th-century Visigothic aristocracy saw itself as bearers of a particular Gothic consciousness and as guardians of old traditions such as Germanic namegiving ; probably these traditions were on the whole restricted to the family sphere ( Hispano-Roman nobles did service for Visigothic nobles already in the 5th century and the two branches of Spanish aristocracy had fully adopted similar customs two centuries later ).

The English term has cognates in the other Germanic languages: Old Saxon heƀan " sky, heaven ", Middle Low German heven " sky ", Old Icelandic himinn " sky, heaven ", Gothic himins ; and those with a variant final-l: Old Frisian himel, himul " sky, heaven ", Old Saxon / Old High German himil, Dutch hemel, and modern German Himmel.

Saint Louis also supported new forms of art such as Gothic architecture ; his Sainte-Chapelle became a very famous gothic building, and he is also credited for the Morgan Bible.

Intellectual life was marked by scholasticism and the founding of universities ; and the building of Gothic cathedrals, which was one of the outstanding artistic achievements of the High Middle Ages.

Midgard ( an anglicised form of Old Norse ; Old English, Old High German, Gothic Midjun-gards ; literally " middle enclosure ") is the name for the world ( in the sense of oikoumene ) inhabited by and known to humans in early Germanic cosmology, and specifically one of the Nine Worlds and in Norse mythology.

Russian / Ukrainian хорт, khort ; Polish chart ; Czech chrt ), as well as a few borrowings from German, including Gothic ( e. g., Old Prussian ylo " awl ," as with Lithuanian ýla, Latvian īlens ) and even Scandinavian languages.

John the Evangelist and John the Baptist, an aisled hall church built in the 14th century and extended in the 15th century ; outstanding Gothic sculptures and paintings inside ( Moses, St. Mary Magdalene, gravestone of Johann von Soest ), Renaissance and Baroque epitaphs and altars ( amongst them the epitaph of Copernicus from 1580 )

Veit Stoss ( also: Veit Stoß ; ; before 1450-about 20 September 1533 ) was a leading Bavarian ( though he was born in Swabia ) sculptor, mostly in wood, whose career covered the transition between the late Gothic and the Northern Renaissance.

His style emphasized pathos and emotion, helped by his virtuoso carving of billowing drapery ; it has been called " late Gothic Baroque ".

Morris, having passed his finals in the previous term, was entered as a pupil at the office of George Edmund Street, one of the leading English Gothic revival architects who had his headquarters in Oxford as architect to the diocese ; and on New Year's Day the first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine appeared.

Yule is attested early in the history of the Germanic peoples ; from the 4th century Gothic language it appears in the month name, and, in the 8th century, the English historian Bede wrote that the Anglo-Saxon calendar included the months geola or giuli corresponding with either modern December or December and January.

Latin Annus ( a 2nd declension masculine noun ; annum is the accusative singular ; anni is genitive singular and nominative plural ; anno the dative and ablative singular ) is from a PIE noun, which also yielded Gothic aþnam " year ".