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Blackletter

A Northern European style of type, with contrasting thick-and-thin, angular strokes forming upright letterforms, and usually set with a dark typographic colour on the page.

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noun
  1. 1

    A Northern European style of type, with contrasting thick-and-thin, angular strokes forming upright letterforms, and usually set with a dark typographic colour on the page.

  2. 2

    Text set in black-letter type.

  3. 3

    The basic standard elements for a particular field of law, which are generally known and free from doubt or dispute.

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