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How do you make Gothic or Old English style text?
Replace each letter with its Mathematical Fraktur version, such as 𝔄 (U+1D504) for A, to get a blackletter look that pastes as text. Five capitals, ℭ ℌ ℑ ℜ ℨ, come from the Letterlike Symbols block because they were encoded earlier for mathematics. Fraktur has no digits in Unicode, so numbers stay plain.
Fraktur example: a brewery sign
A name and founding year of the kind often set in blackletter, converted from plain text:
| Typed | Iron Ridge Brewing Co., est. 1998 |
|---|---|
| Gothic / Fraktur | ℑ𝔯𝔬𝔫 ℜ𝔦𝔡𝔤𝔢 𝔅𝔯𝔢𝔴𝔦𝔫𝔤 ℭ𝔬., 𝔢𝔰𝔱. 1998 |
Three borrowed capitals appear: ℑ for I, ℜ for R and ℭ for C. The year and the punctuation stay plain, because Unicode encodes no Fraktur digits or punctuation.
From German print to the math block
Fraktur is a family of blackletter typefaces that dominated German printing for centuries and stayed common there until the early 1940s. Mathematics adopted it as a distinct alphabet: ℜ and ℑ mark the real and imaginary parts of a complex number, and small Fraktur letters such as 𝔤 commonly name Lie algebras.
Unicode's Mathematical Fraktur alphabet starts at U+1D504 for capitals and U+1D51E for lowercase. The capitals C, H, I, R and Z are reserved gaps, filled by the older black-letter characters ℭ (U+212D), ℌ (U+210C), ℑ (U+2111), ℜ (U+211C) and ℨ (U+2128). A separate, gap-free Bold Fraktur alphabet also exists at U+1D56C-U+1D59F, which this page does not use.
Legibility: keep blackletter short
Blackletter is striking in a word or two and tiring in a sentence. Several capitals look unlike their modern forms, and in many Fraktur designs ℑ and 𝔍, the capitals I and J, are almost indistinguishable. Title case, with a Fraktur capital followed by lowercase, is easier to read than all capitals.
Good fits include a band, team or guild name, a header on a fantasy or metal-themed profile, or a single decorative word in a caption. For the body of a message, plain text beside a Fraktur name keeps the look without making readers decode every word.
What software and screen readers make of it
Each Fraktur letter normalizes to its plain counterpart under NFKC, so ℑ𝔯𝔬𝔫 becomes Iron where software applies that step. Otherwise the word is a different string from Iron and will not turn up in a plain-text search or a name filter.
Screen readers that announce character names call the five borrowed capitals black-letter letters and the rest mathematical Fraktur; others read the line as a word or skip it. Blackletter is also slower for many sighted readers to recognize at a glance, another reason to keep it decorative.
Gothic / Fraktur characters at a glance
| Characters come from | Mathematical Fraktur (U+1D504-U+1D537) plus ℭ ℌ ℑ ℜ ℨ from Letterlike Symbols |
|---|---|
| Capital A becomes | 𝔄 (U+1D504) |
| Small a becomes | 𝔞 (U+1D51E) |
| Digits 0-9 | Left unchanged |
| Punctuation | Left unchanged |
| Basic letters left as typed | None |
| UTF-16 units per letter | 2 (one supplementary-plane code point) |
Fraktur tips
- Use title case; all-capital Fraktur is the hardest form to read.
- Watch for I and J, which can look nearly identical; keep a plain-text version of names that must be read correctly.
- Pair a Fraktur name with plain text for details such as dates and links.
Gothic / Fraktur text FAQ
In fancy-text tools, Gothic usually means blackletter, and Fraktur is the best-known blackletter style. Unicode names these characters Mathematical Fraktur, plus five older Black-Letter capitals, so the generator labels the style Gothic / Fraktur.
Those five capitals come from the Letterlike Symbols block rather than the math block, because Unicode encoded them earlier for mathematical use. Depending on the device, they may be drawn by a different font than the surrounding Fraktur letters.
Unicode has a Mathematical Bold Fraktur alphabet at U+1D56C-U+1D59F with no gaps, but the generator does not output it. The style here is regular-weight Fraktur.
No. Unicode defines no Fraktur digits, so 0-9 stay in the normal font, as do spaces, punctuation, emoji and accented letters.
Related text styles
- Cursive / Script Text Generator: calligraphic script, the other decorative alphabet with borrowed letters
- Double-Struck Text Generator: outlined capitals that also convert digits
- Bold Text Generator: plain heavy letters when you want emphasis without decoration
- Fancy Text Generator: all 15 styles side by side
Reviewed by Raja Jahangir · Last reviewed: October 7, 2026