Gothic


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Gothic means "related to the Goths."

Gothic or Goth may also refer to:

Germanic persons

  • Goths, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes.

Late Medieval art

In the Late Middle Ages, "Germanic" (as opposed to "Romance")

Romanticism

  • Gothic fiction (or Gothic Romanticism) a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later.

Goth subculture

Typefaces

  • Outside the USA it refers to Blackletter
  • In the USA, "Gothic" is another name for sans-serif typefaces
  • URW Gothic is a sans-serif typeface

Other

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