UnifrakturCook

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Weights and styles

• Bold 700UnifrakturCook Bold

About UnifrakturCook

UnifrakturCook is a blackletter typeface with thick, broken strokes and diamond-shaped terminals. The specimen shows dense lowercase letters built from angled pen cuts and broad, ornate capitals with split stems and curled hairlines. According to the official notes, the letter shapes were taken almost unchanged from a font by Peter Wiegel, which goes back to a typeface Rudolf Koch drew in 1910; what j. 'mach' wust added is font technology. Ligatures appear automatically through OpenType, Apple Advanced Typography and SIL Graphite, and the font separates required ligatures such as ch, ck and tz, which stay joined when letterspacing is widened, from ordinary ones such as fi and fl, which split apart. The family has one style, Bold, with 249 glyphs, and was prepared for @font-face use on websites.

Where UnifrakturCook works

Mastheads and titles

Heavy broken strokes and ornate capitals give a newspaper-style nameplate or a title its weight.

German blackletter setting on the web

Required ligatures such as ch, ck and tz are kept even in letterspaced text, following blackletter convention.

Beer labels and tavern signs

The dense, dark letters hold up on labels, coasters and signboards at display size.

Certificates and festive headings

One line in the ornate capitals and lowercase adds ceremony above plainer text.

Band and event logos

A short name in blackletter reads as a mark, and the automatic ligatures tidy pairs such as ch and tz.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with UnifrakturCook

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use UnifrakturCook on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "UnifrakturCook";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/UnifrakturCook-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "UnifrakturCook", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves UnifrakturCook with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=UnifrakturCook:wght@700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Bold is the only weight

The single style is registered as Bold 700; there is no regular or light version.

Suppressing a ligature

The official notes say to put a zero width non-joiner between two letters, for example between t and z in a compound word, when a ligature should not form.

Capitals are not for all-caps setting

The ornate capitals are drawn to begin words; a line of them is hard to read, as the specimen's capital row shows.

FAQs

Collections with UnifrakturCook

• Blackletter and gothic fonts

  Textura, Fraktur and modern blackletter display faces, plus three medieval-flavored relatives, for mastheads, labels and heavy music artwork.

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