Antiqua–Fraktur dispute

(en.wikipedia.org)

68 points | by buzzy_hacker 2 days ago

4 comments

  • card_zero 3 hours ago
    This led me to look up the origins of Fraktur, that typeface having been commissioned by Maximilian I for this extraordinary thing:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumphal_Arch_(woodcut)

    Instead of having a monumental triumphal arch built, he got Dürer to print a monumental poster of a triumphal arch, and had copies of it stuck up in all the public places.

  • skrebbel 13 minutes ago
    I love learning that Hitler had an opinion about fonts and ranted about them in the Reichstag.
  • hasley 1 hour ago
    Today, far right-wing people in Germany use fraktur on shirts, cars etc. - even though it were the Nazis who abolished it.
    • GuestFAUniverse 2 minutes ago
      Same fun when they couldn't decide if they were for or against Sütterlin scripture. They also like to drive Simson motorcycles. Despite the Simson family being Jewish (and publicly calling out against the AfD). They dress with "Fred Perry" -- look it up yourself, how paradox that is. The right-wing likes to talk about the German heritage of the "Dichtern and Denker" (poets and thinkers) and yet the Third Reich was stupid enough to kill or at least exile most. They like to talk about /clean blood/, /natural order/ despite biology having a different opinion which it clearly shows when inbreeding happens (also due to xenophobia). Their /family values/ are indistinguishable from the islamists they pretend to fight. ... The list of paradoxes never ends. ...

      You cannot argue with stupids

    • eru 1 hour ago
      Alas, yes. (Though compare the Anarchistische Pogo Partei Deutschlands.)

      Of course, these wannabe guys use the proper fraktur. They usually use the wrong s and don't care about proper ligatures.

  • liotier 7 minutes ago
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