Gothic font generator

What the gothic font generator swaps your letters for

The generator maps each letter to a Fraktur code point in the Unicode Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, with C, H, I, R and Z pulled from Letterlike Symbols because the Fraktur block skips them. A bold Fraktur run sits in its own contiguous range and is mapped separately. The output is characters, so it keeps its shape wherever text goes.

What it cannot do

• C, H, I, R and Z were designed for a different block and carry a slightly different weight, which shows most in an all-capitals word.
• Blackletter is hard to read at small sizes even when it renders correctly. A long sentence in Fraktur is a wall.
• If you want a .ttf file for a design tool, this page is the wrong page and a font site is the right one.

Blackletter carries weight best when the words do too.

The default line is William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5. Public domain, like every sample on this site.

Questions people actually ask

How is this different from downloading a gothic font?

A downloaded font changes how text looks on your own machine and does nothing once you paste that text somewhere else, because the person reading it does not have the file. These are characters rather than a font, so the shapes survive the paste. If you actually want a .ttf to use in a design tool, a font site is where to go and this page will not help you.

Why do a few capitals look out of place?

C, H, I, R and Z are missing from the Fraktur block and are taken from Letterlike Symbols instead. Those were designed separately, so the stroke weight does not always match the letters around them.

Does gothic text work in a Discord username?

In the display name, yes. Discord's newer unique usernames are restricted to lowercase ASCII, numbers and a couple of punctuation marks, so blackletter is rejected there. Server nicknames still accept it.

Where this renders