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Blackletter Typefaces: Fette Fraktur, Bastard, Fletcher, Breitkopf Fraktur, Old English Text

Blackletter Typefaces: Fette Fraktur, Bastard, Fletcher, Breitkopf Fraktur, Old English Text


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Chapters: Fette Fraktur, Bastard, Fletcher, Breitkopf Fraktur, Old English Text. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 17. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Fette Fraktur is a Blackletter typeface of the sub-classification Fraktur designed by the German punchcutter Johann Christian Bauer (18021867) in 1850. The C.E. Weber Foundry published a version in 1875, and the D Stempel AG foundry published the version shown at right in 1908. Fette Fraktur (German for bold Fraktur) is based on the Fraktur type of Blackletter faces. This heavy nineteenth century version was developed more for advertising than text, similar to the extremely heavy advertising versions of Didone classification faces like Poster Bodoni, Thorogood, and Fat Face. For a span of nearly a hundred years, the original Fraktur script was used as a standard text face in German-speaking Europe and parts of Scandinavia. During the period of the Third Reich Fraktur and Blackletter faces were initially approved of in contrast to sans-serif faces (associated with the Bauhaus and cultural Bolshevism). Approved use of Blackletter Fraktur faces by the Nazi regime continued until January 3, 1941 when Martin Bormann, director of the Party Chancellery issued a directive discontinuing the use of Blackletter faces because of an alleged discovery of Jewish contributions in the development of these faces. Another reason may have been their limited legibility outside of Germany. While the Nazis forbade its use for practical and ideological reasons, at the conclusion of World War II, the Allied forces also prohibited it for a time because occupation troops could not read these faces. Eventually the ban on Blackletter and Frakturs was lifted, but in Germany and Scandinavia the faces were largely replaced by the Antiqua (roman) alphabet. Emotiona...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=856434


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158344222
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 18
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 41 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1158344228
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Fette Fraktur, Bastard, Fletcher, Breitkopf Fraktur, Old English Text
  • Width: 229 mm


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