Gothic Fraktur Split
Decorative1 style17 languages
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Decorative · 1 style · 149 characters · Version 0.1.2 · Published November 5, 2026
Saga Rotunda Shadow combines rotunda-like letter shapes with a detached shadow. This page keeps those observations separate: the name panel measures a specific jersey layout, while the linked manuscript catalog supplies a bounded historical reference for the word rotunda.
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Compare the rounded bowls and detached echo in the actual name and number before choosing a panel size.
The jersey-back illustration keeps the team line, player names and number in separate fixed areas. “NORTH HARBOR” uses 36 px, both name examples use 38 px, and “27” uses 190 px; the long name and number extend beyond their assigned areas in this font.
ALEXANDERSON extends 73.774 px past each side of its 200 px name area, while “27” extends 29.820 px past each side of its number area. NORTH HARBOR and LEE remain within their areas. These visible results apply to this font in the illustration, not to a real jersey.

The Newberry Library catalog describes its 1480 Italian manuscript “Alphabets, geometrically constructed, textura and rotunda letters” as containing Italian Gothic rotunda and northern Gothic textualis letters geometrically drawn on a ruled square grid. That catalog entry documents the historical term and artifact; it does not establish a lineage for this modern font.
Newberry Library: Alphabets, geometrically constructed, textura and rotunda letters — Primary collection record for an artifact dated 1480; identifies Italian Gothic rotunda and describes geometric letters on a square grid.
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In ALEXANDERSON, the A has a pointed top with layered dark contours; the offset echo remains visible along its lower-right edge.
The O in NORTH and HARBOR keeps a broad rounded counter, with a separate dark echo beyond the main stroke.
The 2 in 27 carries the same detached echo as the letters; its shadow adds visible width within the fixed number area.
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Use Saga Rotunda Shadow for short display names where a rounded blackletter-like form and detached echo are intentional. The jersey panel checks one team line, two player-name lengths, and a two-digit number in fixed roles.
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The shadow adds visual mass around the outlines, so the font should not be treated as a neutral uniform-information face. The layout preflight does not establish league compliance, distance recognition, or print transfer behavior.
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Saga Rotunda Shadow's lowercase x reaches 72.7% of the capital height, close to the 72.7% median for decorative fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (99% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 30% of the cap height below the baseline. The o is an upright oval, 0.83 times as wide as it is tall, and M is the widest capital, at 1.27 times the width of H. The O stops 0.5% of the cap height short of H and sits on the baseline.
Each letter carries a drop shadow, kept apart from it by a small gap.
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 31.9% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 6.4% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 225 kerning pairs, the most of all 1 decorative fonts. The tightest of them is Tz, which closes up by 16.7% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Saga Rotunda Shadow will not line up exactly.
Measured from the version 0.1.2 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, Abbey Textura reserves 0.730 em versus 0.758 em in Saga Rotunda Shadow. Its narrower advance can help when that capital repeats in a compact heading.
Acorn Birch gives g a 0.289 em advance; here it is 0.468 em. The alternative sets that character more tightly.
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