Gothic Fraktur Split
Decorative1 style17 languages
a g R S & Aa
Decorative · 1 style · 149 characters · Version 0.1.3 · Published November 5, 2026
Abbey Textura’s O combines a rounded shell with an upright inner bar and two right-side compartments. The W keeps narrow vertical slots between pointed joins.
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Use the O and W as the decision points; the rendered comparisons show the specific cuts in this file.
The O’s upright inner bar separates two small right-side compartments. In the W, narrow vertical slots divide pointed joins.
The UCSB account uses historical terms such as textus quadratus and textus precissus; it does not document this contemporary file or connect it to a particular artifact.

UCSB English Broadside Ballad Archive: Black Letter and the Broadside Ballad — The UCSB English Broadside Ballad Archive places blackletter in a history that includes earlier scribal practices and named print styles. Source excerpt: “formalized in styles like textus quadratus and textus precissus.”
At the same 82px setting, compare the O and W constructions in Abbey Textura and Banner Fraktur.
Abbey’s O has an upright inner bar and two right compartments; the paired rows show the different outlines in these files without ranking their widths.

This poster concept gives the display face a brief heading and open space around its capitals.

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The O has a rounded outer contour, one upright interior bar and two small right compartments.
The W has narrow vertical white slots and pointed joins.
The capital L lifts into a waved crest and ends in a long foot.
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A short ceremonial heading where the divided O and slotted W can be inspected at display scale.
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Dense paragraphs and narrow columns, where the ornamental capitals would repeat too often.
About
Abbey Textura's lowercase x reaches 67.7% of the capital height, close to the 67.7% median for decorative fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (98.9% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 31.2% of the cap height below the baseline. The o is close to a circle, 1.05 times as wide as it is tall, and M is the widest capital, at 1.28 times the width of H. The O stops 1.1% of the cap height short of H and dips 0.4% below the baseline.
The letters stand upright, leaning less than 2.5° either way.
Its 148 characters include 105 Latin letters, plus 43 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 53 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. The word space measures 33.3% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 5.8% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 218 kerning pairs, the most of all 1 decorative fonts. The tightest of them is TA, which closes up by 22.6% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Abbey Textura will not line up exactly.
Measured from the version 0.1.3 font file. Comparisons are with the 1 published library fonts measured on November 4, 2026, 1 of them decorative fonts.
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The font files were checked for supported characters and visible letter shapes. AI helped describe the forms and prepare the sample compositions. The images use the named font files; samples are illustrative, and measurements come from the supplied files.
The current text and font-file specimens received an independent review.
For R, Banner Fraktur reserves 0.856 em versus 0.730 em in Abbey Textura. Its wider layout space can change a short title’s line break.
Acorn Birch gives g a 0.289 em advance; here it is 0.530 em. The alternative sets that character more tightly.
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