U+1D400 The Unicode codepoint the style's characters come from. Two styles can look almost identical and still be different characters with different device support. The codepoint is the only reliable way to tell which one you copied.
IGTTRB Platform support. Green renders reliably. Amber works, but breaks on some devices or in some fields. Struck through is filtered out or rejected by that platform.
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The same style inside each frame. Type above and these update with it, then tap to copy the whole thing. The number is the character count, which matters if you are pasting into a field with a limit.
Gothic text: listed in Unicode as fraktur, and sometimes sold elsewhere as old English. Is a blackletter style that descends from the handwriting of medieval scribes and stayed in everyday German printing until the mid-twentieth century. It carries weight and formality that no other style here manages, which is why it turns up on band logos, tattoo lettering and gaming clan tags far more often than in ordinary bios.
Five uppercase letters, C, H, I, R and Z, sit slightly differently from the rest of the alphabet. This isn't a rendering fault. When the mathematical block was defined, those five positions were already occupied by characters allocated years earlier in Letterlike Symbols, so the standard left them reserved and the letters have to be borrowed from that earlier block. They were drawn by different hands at a different time, and at large sizes you can see it. The more practical limitation is legibility: blackletter was designed for whole pages of text read slowly, and on a phone screen at bio size a long gothic sentence becomes genuinely hard to parse. It works best on short strings: a name, a tag, a single word.
Short, prominent, and nothing that has to be read quickly.
A name, a tag, a single word. Blackletter was designed for pages of text read slowly by people raised on it, and a modern reader parses it far more slowly than upright letterforms.
The five borrowed capitals are worth planning around rather than worrying about. If your text starts with C, H, I, R or Z, that letter will sit slightly differently from the rest, which is more visible in a two-word tag than in a full line.
Bold fraktur is fully contiguous with no borrowed characters and holds up better at small sizes, so if the seams bother you, it is the better of the two.
In practice yes, though the names have different histories. Blackletter is the family; fraktur is one style within it and the name Unicode uses; old English is a separate blackletter style that most tools use loosely as a label for the same characters. You're getting fraktur whichever name it's sold under.
Their positions in the mathematical block were already taken by characters added to Unicode earlier, so those five are reserved and the letters come from a different block. Different origin, different drawing: visible mostly at larger sizes.
These are screen characters, not artwork, and how they look depends entirely on which font the viewing device happens to have. For anything permanent, take the wording to an artist who works in blackletter rather than copying pixels off a phone.