German orthography

thumb|A modern sans-serif and four blackletter typefaces (left to right): Textur(a), Rotunda, [[Schwabacher and Fraktur.]]

'''''' (, ' script') is the last widely used form of , the historical form of German handwriting script that evolved alongside German blackletter (most notably ') typefaces. Graphic artist Ludwig Sütterlin was commissioned by the Prussian Ministry of Science, Art and Education (') to create a modern handwriting script in 1911. His handwriting scheme gradually replaced the older cursive scripts that had developed in the 16th century at the same time that letters in books had developed into Fraktur. The name '''' is nowadays often used to refer to several similar varieties of old German handwrit

thumb|right|Danish script () from about 1800 with ⟨Æ⟩ and ⟨Ø⟩ at the end of the alphabet. thumb|right|Sample font table of German handwriting by Kaushik Carlini, 2021.

thumb|A page from the Nuremberg Chronicle (Schedelsche Weltchronik), 1493 Schwabacher typefaces (pronounced ) were a style of blackletter typefaces which evolved from Gothic Textualis (Textura) under the influence of Humanist type design in Italy during the 15th century. Schwabacher typesetting was the most common typeface in Germany, until it was replaced by Fraktur from the mid 16th century onwards. In the course of the 18th and 19th centuries (but in Germany not until 1941), Fraktur gave way in turn to Antiqua.

international normative body regulating German orthography

orthography used in writing the German language