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Fraktur is a Blackletter script used to write the German language from the beginning of the Sixteenth Century until 1945. Fraktur enjoyed a resurgence as a font favoured by Heavy Metal bands such as Motörhead, from the 1970s to the present.

In the United States, Fraktur is used to describe highly artistic and elaborate 18th century and 19th century illuminated folk art drawings created by the Pennsylvania Dutch (perhaps more strictly Pennsylvania Deitsch or Pennsylvanian German). Most Fraktur were created between 1740 and 1860.