Blackletter lettering in the style of old newspaper mastheads and tattoos.
𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔠 𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱
𝕲𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖈 𝖙𝖊𝖝𝖙
† 𝕲𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖈 𝖙𝖊𝖝𝖙 †
𝔊 𝔬 𝔱 𝔥 𝔦 𝔠 𝔱 𝔢 𝔵 𝔱
Fraktur is a blackletter typeface that was widely used in Germany and appears in newspaper logos, metal band names and tattoo designs. Unicode includes a regular and a bold fraktur alphabet in its mathematical symbols, and this page converts your text to both.
Two decorative variants add a dagger on each side or spacing between letters. Only the basic Latin letters have fraktur forms, so digits and punctuation remain plain.
No. These are Unicode characters that happen to look like styled letters, so they paste into any app that accepts text, with no font installation. Because they are different characters from normal letters, search and screen readers may handle them differently.
People often call it that, but it is blackletter in the fraktur style. The result looks the way most people expect Old English lettering to look.
They are in the standard symbol range, so modern devices show them. Some old systems show empty boxes.