UnifrakturMaguntia

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400UnifrakturMaguntia Regular

About UnifrakturMaguntia

UnifrakturMaguntia is a blackletter typeface in the Fraktur style: broken, angular lowercase strokes with diamond-shaped feet, and broad capitals built from curling, doubled strokes. According to the official description, j. 'mach' wust started from a font by Peter Wiegel, itself derived from a typeface that Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt made in 1901, and left the glyph shapes almost untouched. What changed is the technology: ligatures are handled through OpenType, Apple Advanced Typography and SIL Graphite. As an experimental feature, the font separates required ligatures such as ch, ck and tz, which stay joined when text is letterspaced, from ordinary ones such as fi and fl, which split apart. The character set includes the long s and a capital sharp s. There is one Regular style with 270 glyphs for basic Latin and Western European accents, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where UnifrakturMaguntia works

Newspaper-style mastheads

Broad Fraktur capitals and dense lowercase give a publication name the look of an old masthead.

German historical texts

The long s and the required ligatures follow the conventions of Fraktur typesetting, which matters when quoting old German print.

Certificates and diplomas

A title line in blackletter above plain text signals ceremony and tradition.

Labels and logos with a traditional tone

Breweries, bakeries and bands use Fraktur forms for a name that should look centuries old.

Letterspaced blackletter titles

Required ligatures stay intact while other pairs open up, so tracked-out titles keep correct joins.

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 UnifrakturMaguntia

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 UnifrakturMaguntia 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: "UnifrakturMaguntia";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/UnifrakturMaguntia-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves UnifrakturMaguntia 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=UnifrakturMaguntia&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Unfamiliar letter shapes

Several letters differ strongly from roman type: in the specimen the capital A resembles a U, and k and x are easy to mistake for other letters.

One style

UnifrakturMaguntia has Regular 400 only, with no bold or italic.

Made for web linking

The official description says the font was optimised for @font-face use and that it was first published in 2010.

FAQs

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