Gothic or Gothics may refer to:

People and languages

Goths The Goths were a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. They were first reported by Graeco-Roman authors in the 3rd century AD, living north of the Danube in what is ...

or Gothic people, a Germanic people **

Gothic language Gothic is an extinct language, extinct East Germanic languages, East Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from the ''Codex Argenteus'', a 6th-century copy of a 4th-century Bible translation, and is the only Ea ...

, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **

Gothic alphabet The Gothic alphabet is an alphabet for writing the Gothic language. It was developed in the 4th century AD by Ulfilas (or Wulfila), a Gothic preacher of Cappadocian Greek descent, for the purpose of translating the Bible. The alphabet e ...

, an alphabet used to write the Gothic language ** Gothic (Unicode block) *

Geats The Geats ( ; ; ; ), sometimes called ''Geats#Goths, Goths'', were a large North Germanic peoples, North Germanic tribe who inhabited ("land of the Geats") in modern southern Sweden from antiquity until the Late Middle Ages. They are one of ...

, sometimes called Goths, a large North Germanic tribe who inhabited Götaland

Arts and entertainment

Genres and styles

Gothic art Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture. It spread to all of Western Europe, and much of Northern Europe, Norther ...

, a style of medieval art *

Gothic architecture Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High Middle Ages, High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. It evolved f ...

, an architectural style *

Gothic fiction Gothic fiction, sometimes referred to as Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name of the genre is derived from the Renaissance era use of the word "gothic", as a pejorative to mean me ...

, a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting *

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 an ...

, a style of rock music *

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. Post-punk artists who presaged the gothic rock genre and helped develo ...

, developed by fans of gothic rock

Gaming

* ''Gothic'' (series), a video game series ** ''Gothic'' (video game), 2001 ** Gothic II, 2002 *** Gothic II: Night of the Raven, 2003 ** Gothic 3, 2006 ** ''Gothic'' (upcoming video game), a remake of the 2001 video game

Music

* Symphony No. 1, or "The Gothic", Havergal Brian * ''Gothic'' (Paradise Lost album), 1991 * ''Gothic'' (Nox Arcana album), 2015

Other uses in arts and entertainment

* ''Gothic'' (film), a 1986 British psychological horror film *'' Batman: Gothic'', a 1990 comic book story arc *"Gothic", a 2010 episode of TV series ''QI'' (Series G)

Typography

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

, or Gothic script, Gothic minuscule or Gothic type *

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 ...

or Gothic typefaces **

East Asian Gothic typeface In East Asian writing systems, gothic typefaces (; ; , ''godik-che'') are a type style characterized by strokes of even thickness and lack of decorations, akin to sans serif styles in Western typography. It is the second most commonly used st ...

, the "sans-serif" equivalent for East Asian writing systems **

Block letters Block letters (known as printscript, manuscript, print writing, printing or ball and stick in academics) are a sans-serif (or "gothic") style of writing Latin script in which the letters are individual glyphs, with no joining. Elementary educat ...

Other uses

Gothic, Colorado Gothic, Colorado is a ghost town in the American state of Colorado. It is in the West Elk Mountains. Now, it is not a true ghost town, as in the warmer months it is the high-altitude biological field station of the Rocky Mountain Biologica ...

, U.S., a ghost town *

Gothic F.C. Gothic F.C. was an English association football, football club based in Norwich. They were members of the Eastern Counties Football League, Eastern Counties League between 1963 and 1978. History The club was established in 1898 as the works tea ...

, a football club in Norwich, England *

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 Europ ...

, a species of nocturnal moth *

Gothics Gothics is a mountain in the Great Range of the Adirondacks in the U.S. state of New York. It is the tenth-highest peak in New York, with an elevation of , and one of the 46 High Peaks in Adirondack Park. It is located in the town of Kee ...

, a mountain in the Great Range of the Adirondacks in New York state, U.S. *, the name of several steamships