Bastarda

Bastarda or bastard was a blackletter script used in France, the Burgundian Netherlands and Germany during the 14th and 15th centuries.

[1] Early printers produced local versions of the script in typeface.

The main variety was the one used in France,[citation needed] which was also found in Geneva, Antwerp and London.

[further explanation needed] Another local variety was found in the Netherlands; Caxton's first types were a rather poor copy of this.

[citation needed] The French lettre bâtarde passed out of use by the mid-16th century, but the German variety developed into the national Fraktur type, which remained in use until the mid-twentieth century.