“The special feature of Gothic scripts is their verticality and the sense of reaching upwards is revealed most clearly in a comparison with Gothic architecture. Goethe said about this: ‘In its decoration German script is like Gothic buildings which draw the eye upwards and fill us with astonishment and admiration.’ The soaring tendency of Gothic cathedrals was intended to show believers their powerlessness in the face of the world beyond; the dark type surface of texture gives a foretaste of the sacred and the numinous in mysticism.”

—Albert Kapr, The Art of Lettering; The History, Anatomy, and Aesthetics of the Roman Letter Forms, 1983. The type is Textura by Johannes Numeister, 1457.