![]() ![]() In fact, the gothic typeface consists of Jew-letters from Schwabach. Regarding and calling the so called gothic typeface as a German typeface is wrong. On behalf of the Führer I notify for common attention that: As mentioned, in 1941 Nazi Germany officially abandoned it in favour of Antiqua, in an edict that claimed that Fraktur was developed from Schwabacher, which contained "Jew-letters": The dispute became political, and Fraktur became associated with the German nation. Germany resisted the trend of moving away from Blackletter, where the typeface's use was fuelled by various culture wars, from the Reformation (Catholic texts were printed in Antiqua, and Protestant texts in Fraktur) to the Napoleonic wars. In Germany, the most popular Blackletter was Fraktur, which was in wide use from the mid 16th century on. (from_the_shrine_of_the_Augustales_at_Herculaneum).jpg Germany was an exception, sticking with Blackletter until 1941. These became popular and spread throughout Europe, and are still in wide use today. ![]() Looking for legibility and beauty, people invented new typefaces like the Roman/Serif family, inspired by older scripts such as Roman square capitals and Carolingian. Things changed after the printing press with movable type - it no longer mattered how long it took to write something - and the Renaissance. The downside is that Blackletter is less legible. This was important at the time, because people wanted to read about more things, but writing was laborious, and paper and parchment were expensive. Seems pretty in line with what the National Socialist German Workers’ Party did.īlackletter was once widely used throughout Europe, as it was quicker to write and more condensed than its predecessor, Carolingian minuscule. Especially the allegation of “Jewish letters” strikes me as odd, seeing how Fraktur originates in the early 16th century and was commissioned by Maximilian I, an emperor that kicked the Jews out of some regions in 1496 and in 1509 passed the “Imperial Confiscation Mandate” which ordered the destruction of all Jewish literature apart from the Bible. German historian Albert Kapr has speculated that the régime had realized that Fraktur would inhibit communication in the territories occupied during World War II.īut this seems a strange reason for people that valued their own ideology over everything else. On January 3, 1941, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or more precisely Martin Bormann, issued a circular to all public offices which declared Fraktur to be Jewish letters and prohibited their further use. Wikipedia’s take on the topic is roughly this: They were often commonly and errornously called "Fraktur" in German, but the correct name was gebrochene Schrift while Fraktur was only one (but the most used) typeface. Blackletter typefaces were exclusively used in German and German-friendly countries for several centuries.
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