Blackletter Unicode kluge

[5jt]

Specifying the blackletter Unicode positions in the Optima font yields a barely legible banner. (I have not looked, but doubt the font for Zapf’s Optima includes glyphs for these positions. If not, the OS is haphazardly picking them from other fonts with unpredictable results.)

Google Fonts includes two well-designed blackletter faces: UnifrakturCook and Pirata One. The upper-case transform works badly with blackletter type.

[yihui]

Thanks! In case anyone also wants to avoid blackletters, one solution that the OP provided is e010ea7 + cc23687.