Everything about Schwabacher totally explained
The
German word
Schwabacher refers to a specific
blackletter typeface. The term derives from the village of
Schwabach.
Characteristics
The small-letter
g and the capital-letter
H have particularly distinctive forms.
History
The Schwabacher was a blackletter typeface that evolved from
textualis under the influence of Humanist type design in Italy. It was nearer to handwriting than the textualis style. In the
16th century, it was displaced by
fraktur as the most-used
German typeface. It was still used occasionally until the mid
20th century.
Fraktur was abandoned, although widely-used before, by the
Nazis with the
Schrifterlass of
3 January 1941, where it's called
Schwabacher Judenlettern "Jew-letters of Schwabach". There is however no evidence of any actual connection between Jews and the Schwabacher typeface.
Samples
(The German sentence in the figures reads: "Beispiel Alte Schwabacher [Exampleof old Schwabacher]: Victor jagt zwölf Boxkämpfer quer über den Sylter Deich". This is a nonsense sentence meaning "Victor chases twelve box fighters across the dike of Sylt", but contains all 26 letters of the alphabet plus the German umlauts and is thus an example of a pangram.)Further Information
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