Sentence examples for black letter from inspiring English sources

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black letter

noun

A Northern European style of type, with contrasting thick-and-thin, angular strokes forming upright letterforms, and usually set with a dark typographic colour on the page.

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This was black letter.

Indeed, "it is black letter law..

"The Black Letter type style was the predominant font for skin art and tattoos".

By comparison with black letter, it was a simple, straightforward, unembellished shape.

Black letter and revised Carolingian roman were the two dominant letter shapes of medieval typography.

Eventually Carolingian minuscule was displaced by Gothic, or black letter, minuscule script.

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Printed in black-letter type of an almost startling blackness, its pages command attention by means of a contrast too pronounced to be comfortable to the reader.

Some black-letter mannerism appears in the writing.

There are also cursive forms of black-letter scripts.

Jenson also designed Greek-style type and black-letter type.

"It's a black-letter rule," Mr. McGurn said.

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