Gothic or Gothics may refer to:

People and languages

* Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes ** Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths ** Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken by the Crimean Goths, also extinct **

Gothic alphabet The Gothic alphabet is an alphabet used for writing the Gothic language. Ulfilas (or Wulfila) developed it in the 4th century AD for the purpose of translating the Bible. The alphabet essentially uses uncial forms of the Greek alphabet, wit ...

, one of the alphabets used to write the Gothic language **

Gothic (Unicode block) Gothic is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the East Germanic Gothic language Gothic is an extinct East Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from the ''Codex Argenteus'', a 6th-century copy o ...

, a collection of Unicode characters of the Gothic alphabet

Art and architecture

* Gothic art, a Medieval art movement * Gothic architecture * Gothic Revival architecture (Neo-Gothic) ** Carpenter Gothic **

Collegiate Gothic Collegiate Gothic is an architectural style subgenre of Gothic Revival architecture, popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries for college and high school buildings in the United States and Canada, and to a certain extent Europ ...

** High Victorian Gothic

Romanticism

* Gothic fiction or Gothic Romanticism, a literary genre

Entertainment

* ''Gothic'' (film), a 1986 film by Ken Russell * ''Gothic'' (series), a video game series originally developed by Piranha Bytes Game Studios ** ''Gothic'' (video game), a 2001 video game developed by Piranha Bytes Game Studios

Modern culture and lifestyle

Goth subculture Goth is a music-based subculture that began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. It was developed by fans of Gothic rock, an offshoot of the post-punk music genre. The name ''Goth'' was derived directly from the genre. Notable post-p ...

, a music-cultural scene

Music

Gothic rock Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The first post-punk bands which shifted toward dark music with gothic overtones include Siouxsie a ...

, a genre of rock music *

Gothic metal Gothic metal (or goth metal) is a fusion genre combining the aggression of heavy metal with the dark atmospheres of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy met ...

, a genre of heavy metal music * Symphony No. 1 "The Gothic" (Brian), a symphony by Havergal Brian * ''Gothic'' (Paradise Lost album), 1991 * ''Gothic'' (Nox Arcana album), 2015

Typography

Blackletter Blackletter (sometimes black letter), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule, or Textura, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 until the 17th century. It continued to be commonly used for the Danish, Norweg ...

, Gothic or Textura typefaces, a script historically used throughout Western Europe, resembling mediaeval scribal writing *

Sans-serif In typography and lettering, a sans-serif, sans serif, gothic, or simply sans letterform is one that does not have extending features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. Sans-serif typefaces tend to have less stroke width variation than seri ...

or Gothic typefaces, an unadorned font style, that lacks "serifs" at the ends of strokes ** East Asian Gothic typeface, the "sans-serif" equivalent for East Asian writing systems * Block letters or Gothic writing, a style of writing alphabetic scripts and abjads in which characters are individual glyphs without joining

Transport

* SS ''Gothic'' (1893), a White Star Line ship * SS ''Gothic'' (1947), a Corinthic-class passenger and cargo liner

Other

Gothic (moth) The Gothic (''Naenia typica'') is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. It is distributed in temperate Eurasia, in the Palearctic realm, including Europe ...

, a species of nocturnal moth *

Gothic Line The Gothic Line (german: Gotenstellung; it, Linea Gotica) was a German Defense line, defensive line of the Italian Campaign (World War II), Italian Campaign of World War II. It formed Generalfeldmarschall, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's la ...

, a World War II defensive line * Gothics, one of the Adirondack High Peaks in New York *

Gothic F.C. Gothic F.C. was an English football club based in Norwich. They were members of the Eastern Counties League between 1963 and 1978. History The club was established in 1898 as the works team of Laurence, Scott and Electromotors and initially pla ...

, a football club in Norwich, England * New Gothic, a contemporary art movement *'' Batman: Gothic'', a 1990 comic book story arc *

Gothic plate armour Gothic plate armour (german: Gotischer Plattenpanzer) was the type of steel plate armour made in the Holy Roman Empire during the 15th century. History While the term "Gothic" in art history covers the 12th to 15th centuries, Gothic plate arm ...

, a style of armour used in the 15th century