Blackletter, the βOld Englishβ look
What most people call the Old English font is blackletter: the dense, angular Gothic script of late medieval manuscripts and of the first printed books, such as the Gutenberg Bible of the 1450s. Today you see it on diplomas, newspaper nameplates, tattoos and band logos.
This generator uses Unicodeβs Fraktur letters, a German form of blackletter, in regular and bold. Like all fancy text they are characters, not a font, so the look survives copy and paste.
Not the Old English language
Despite the name, this lettering has nothing to do with Old English, the language of Beowulf, which was mostly written in a rounder script before blackletter took hold. To put your words into the language itself, use the Old English translator.
Before a tattoo or a print
The exact shapes depend on the font of the app showing them, and C, H, I, R and Z come from a different Unicode block, so they can look a little different. Use this to try out wording, then ask your artist or printer to set it in a real blackletter typeface and check the spelling.
Use it with care
Screen readers may read these characters strangely or skip them, and search wonβt match them to normal words. Keep the important words, like your name or your shop name, in plain text somewhere too. Very old devices may show empty boxes.