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However, more modernized fonts of the Gebrochene Grotesk type such as Tannenberg were in fact the most popular typefaces in Nazi Germany, especially for running text as opposed to decorative uses such as in titles. These fonts were designed in the early 20th century, mainly the 1930s, as grotesque versions of blackletter typefaces. The Nazis ...
Breitkopf Fraktur is a Blackletter font designed by typographer and German music publisher Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf (1719–1794). [1] Breitkopf was the son of the publisher Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf , founder of the publishing house Breitkopf & Härtel , a firm that continues to the present day.
Tannenberg Bold. Tannenberg is a Fraktur-family blackletter typeface, developed between 1933 and 1935 by Erich Meyer at the type foundry D. Stempel AG in Frankfurt am Main.The design followed the "New Typography" principles of Jan Tschichold that promoted "constructed" sans serif typefaces.
Fraktur is a form of blackletter that became the most common German blackletter typeface by the mid-16th century. Its use was so common that often any blackletter form is called Fraktur in Germany. Characteristics of Fraktur are: The left side of the small letter o is formed by an angular stroke, the right side by a rounded stroke. At the top ...
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Variants of Fraktur faces, such as Fette Fraktur, are however used in advertising and packaging to communicate a sense of traditional Austrian, Bavarian, or German flavor. In this modern decorative use the Fraktur rules about long s and short s or about ligatures are often disregarded, the knowledge of the old typographical conventions being lost.
Fonts obtained from … Gerhard Helzel: Koch-Fraktur, Mars-Fraktur Dieter Steffmann: Breitkopf-Fraktur, Humboldt-Fraktur, Kleist-Fraktur, Theuerdank-Fraktur, Walbaum-Fraktur, Wieynck-Fraktur (misspelled as “Wieynk Fraktur”) , Zentenar-Fraktur
Non-blackletter fonts designed by Rudolf Koch Fraktur fonts by Rudolf Koch. Rudolf Koch (20 November 1876 – 9 April 1934) was a German type designer, professor, and a master of lettering, calligraphy, typography and illustration.