Although Uncial capitals are historically more closely allied with the Round Gothic, we have abundant precedent for their use with the minuscule Blackletterin many of the best medieval specimens.
The late Gothic or Blackletter is condensed and narrowed in the extreme.
The letters shown in 182 are fairly typical of the characteristic Blackletter minuscules of Italy.
Unlike the Roman, the Blackletter form does not permit that one word be wider spaced than others in the same panel.
The Roman letter is more legible than the Blackletter mainly because it is black against a roomy white ground; while Blackletter, on the contrary, is really defined by small interrupted areas of whites upon a black ground.
Figure 149 shows the use of a Blackletter on an admirable monumental brass, which is reputed to have been designed by Albrecht Dürer.
He would detect you an old blackletter ballad among the leaves of a law-paper, and find an editio princeps under the mask of a school Corderius.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blackletter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
