Black Letter Definition
noun
A heavy typeface with very broad counters and thick ornamental serifs.
American Heritage
A kind of heavy-faced, ornamental printing type.
Webster's New World
(typography) 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.
Wiktionary
Text set in black-letter type.
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