Why An 'Old-Timey Gothic Typeface' Became 'The Nazi Font' by Artsjournal1

Blackletter, or Fraktur (as it's known in German), was used all over Europe during the Middle Ages and through the early years of the printing press. As the rest of the continent gave blackletter up, though, Protestant Germans held on to Fraktur (Roman type was Papist, you understand), and, by the early 20th century, the […]

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