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Add Blackletter font support
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Author: morganation1

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A Blackletter (or Gothic) font would be useful for Wikisource. This is a small matter, only cosmetic, but it would allow Wikisource to better match the original typography of the texts it transcribes.

I am not sure how these things work but a Google search suggests that one of these, or something like them, would be suitable under a compatible licence:

http://www.fontspace.com/dieter-steffmann/blackletter
http://www.fontspace.com/dieter-steffmann/cloister-black

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Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 12:22 AM
• bzimport added projects: MediaWiki-extensions-WebFonts, I18n.
• bzimport set Reference to bz36666.
• bzimport created this task.May 8 2012, 10:50 PM
MarkAHershberger added a comment.May 9 2012, 4:34 PM

webfonts for wikisource? Interesting.

• santhosh added a comment.May 17 2012, 6:46 AM

(In reply to comment #0)

http://www.fontspace.com/dieter-steffmann/blackletter
http://www.fontspace.com/dieter-steffmann/cloister-black

I don't think the above two can be used since the license is not a permissive one(read FOSS). But in the past we got a similar request (not in bugzilla, for a private wiki) and documented here http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.in/2011/09/old-documents-presented-well.html

I found http://unifraktur.sourceforge.net/maguntia.html (sample http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/UnifrakturMaguntia) close to our need and having OFL license. Does this font fits to our purpose?

• bzimport added a comment.May 30 2012, 8:21 PM

morganation1 wrote:

UnifrakturMaguntia looks good. If the licensing works then it's perfect for our needs.

• santhosh added a comment.May 31 2012, 12:22 PM

Added UnifrakturMaguntia font in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/9506

Xover mentioned this in T166138: Please add Petit Formal Script to the UniversalLanguageSelector.Jul 19 2021, 4:20 PM
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