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How the generator works
The generator sets your text in one of three scripts: Sütterlin and Kurrent are old German handwriting, and Fraktur is the blackletter type of old books. On request it sets the long ſ, which is meant for German words; in English text you may want to switch it off.
For the other direction, there is the text recognition: it reads printed Fraktur from a photo or scan and outputs the text in modern letters. It cannot read handwriting in Sütterlin or Kurrent. To decipher an old letter, the quickest way is our reading trainer.
A printed model, not real handwriting
Someone writing with a pen formed each letter differently depending on the one before it, and many letters looked different at the start of a word than at the end. Our fonts have one form for each letter, as in a school copybook. The result looks more even than real handwriting, so use it to learn the shapes rather than to expect an exact match in a record.
The image, as a PNG with an optional transparent background or as an A4 PDF for printing, is created right in your browser, and your text is not uploaded. For longer texts or your own documents, download the fonts for free.