The distinguished look and historic sensation make it extremely popular in advertising, invitations, greeting cards and wherever a formal hand-lettered or engraved look is desired. The style is characterized by its engraving look. The Old English font, according to Wikipedia, is a revival of William Caslon’s typeface Caslon Black. Various forms of blackletter exist, mainly including Textualis, the most calligraphic form of blackletter Schwabacher, an old English form that was heavily used in the early German print typefaces Fraktur, the most common German blackletter typeface. It should be noted that Old English or blackletter has nothing to do with old English language nor the old English language written with blackletter. The Old English, also known as blackletter, dates back to 1000 years ago when it was used as a script throughout Western Europe.
