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==[[Goth subculture]]==
==[[Goth subculture]]==
*[[Gothic rock]], a kind of rock music, sometimes with rather gloomy overtones.
*[[Gothic rock]], a type of rock music, sometimes with rather gloomy overtones.
*[[Gothic fashion]]
*[[Gothic fashion]]



Revision as of 19:03, 19 September 2009

Gothic means "related to the Goths."

Gothic or Goth may also refer to:

Germanic persons

  • Goths, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes.

Late Medieval art

In the Late Middle Ages, "Germanic" (as opposed to "Romance")

  • Gothic fiction (or Gothic Romanticism) a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later.

Typefaces

  • Outside the USA it refers to Blackletter
  • In the USA, "Gothic" is another name for sans-serif typefaces
  • URW Gothic is a sans-serif typeface

Other

See also