Data © of The Monotype Corporation plc/Type Solutions Inc. Typeface © of The Monotype Corporation plc. The licence mentioned above the download button is just an indication. It looks remarkably like the famous Cloister Black designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1904. This fonts are authors property, and are either shareware, demo versions or public domain. Little is known about the history of Old English Text, provided here by Monotype Typography, but it has been beautifully made. For example: Install the font on your Mac OS X or. The Frakturs have an x that looks like an r with a mysterious disease, and the Blackletters have fiddly bits in the middle like those you see in this Old English Text. For the most common uses, both personal and professional, for use in desktop applications with a font menu. There are two main kinds of what people tend to call Gothic letters: the German Frakturs and the English Blackletter.