black letter

== English == === Alternative forms === blackletter, black-letter === Noun === black letter (countable and uncountable, plural black letters) (calligraphy) A highly calligraphic Western European script style used from approximately 1150. (typography) A Northern European style of type based on the script, with contrasting thick-and-thin, angular strokes forming upright letterforms, and usually set with a dark typographic colour on the page. Synonym: Gothic Text set in black-letter type. (law) The basic standard elements for a particular field of law, which are generally known and free from doubt or dispute. ==== Hyponyms ==== (typeface): Gothic, bastarda, fraktur, Old English, quadrata, rotunda, Schwabacher, textura ==== Coordinate terms ==== (typeface): Antiqua, whiteletter ==== Derived terms ==== black-letter law ==== Translations ====