Old English Fonts

About Old English Fonts

The Old English, also known as blackletter, dates back to 1000 years ago when it was used as a script throughout Western Europe. It should be noted that Old English or blackletter has nothing to do with old English language nor the old English language written with blackletter. Various forms of blackletter exist, mainly including Textualis, the most calligraphic form of blackletter; Schwabacher, an old English form that was heavily used in the early German print typefaces; Fraktur, the most common German blackletter typeface.

The Old English font, according to Wikipedia, is a revival of William Caslon’s typeface Caslon Black. The style is characterized by its engraving look. The distinguished look and historic sensation make it extremely popular in advertising, invitations, greeting cards and wherever a formal hand-lettered or engraved look is desired. The old English font is also used a lot in text tattoo designs. Due to its intricate appearance, it is very hard to draw with freehand. New Old English designed by K-Type is a typical font family of old English style. The font was inspired by two Victorian coins which featured a gothic script lowercase with quite modern looking.

New Old English by K-Type

To download free old english fonts for personal or commercial use, you can take a look at our collection of old english fonts. If you just want to create text graphics and logos online using old english fonts, you can check out our text generator below.

Create Text Graphics with Old English Fonts

You can use the following tool to generate text graphics based on your selection of colors, text effects and sizes using old english fonts in seconds. You can then save the image, or use the EMBED button to get image links.

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