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    rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Fraktur (German: [fʁakˈtuːɐ̯] ) is a calligraphic hand of the Latin alphabet and...
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    Blackletter (section Fraktur)
    discontinued it in 1941. Fraktur is a notable script of this type, and sometimes the entire group of blackletter faces is referred to as Fraktur. Blackletter is...
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    Fraktur is a highly artistic and elaborate illuminated folk art created by the Pennsylvania Dutch, named after the Fraktur script associated with it. Most...
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    The Antiqua–Fraktur dispute was a typographical dispute in 19th- and early 20th-century Germany. In most European countries, blackletter typefaces like...
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    Breitkopf Fraktur is a Blackletter font designed by typographer and German music publisher Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf (1719–1794). Breitkopf was...
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  • Look up fraktur in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fraktur is a specific style of blackletter typeface. Fraktur may also refer to: Fraktur (folk art)...
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    together in a continuous fashion; in this way it is often contrasted with Fraktur-style typefaces where the individual strokes are broken apart. The two...
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    Fette Fraktur is a blackletter typeface of the sub-classification Fraktur designed by the German punchcutter Johann Christian Bauer (1802–1867) in 1850...
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    edition to use the long s. In German orthography, long s was retained in Fraktur (Schwabacher) type as well as in standard cursive (Sütterlin) well into...
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    German handwriting that evolved alongside German blackletter (most notably Fraktur) typefaces. Graphic artist Ludwig Sütterlin was commissioned by the Prussian...
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  • 1936) Weiß-Fraktur (before 1936) Lichte Weiß-Fraktur (before 1936) Weiß-Rundgotisch (before 1936) Wieynck-Fraktur (before 1936) Zentenar-Fraktur (before...
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    [who?] as they realized that Fraktur would inhibit communication in the territories occupied during World War II. The Fraktur script however remains present...
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  • world: Some typefaces, such as Fraktur faces, use the double hyphen as a glyphic variant of the single hyphen. (With Fraktur faces, such a double hyphen...
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    of long and "round"-s in Fraktur. ⟨ß⟩ appeared both word internally after long vowels and also in those positions where Fraktur required the second s to...
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    ornate calligraphic or typographical style originating in Western Europe Fraktur, a form of Blackletter Schwabacher, a form of Blackletter Gothic alphabet...
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  • Typefoundry. These foundry types were produced by Ludwig & Mayer: Allemannia Fraktur (1908), later digitized by Mew Varissara Ophaswongse (2018) Allright (1936)...
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  • Breitkopf Fraktur Cursiva Minosa Cursiva Saxonia Preta Dresdner Amts-Fraktur (≤ 1911) Dresdner Amts-Fraktur eng halbfett (≤ 1911) Dresdner Amts-Fraktur fett...
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    originated in a (Fraktur) ligature of ⟨ſz⟩ (which is supported by the fact that the second part of the ⟨ß⟩ grapheme usually resembles a Fraktur z: ⟨ z {\displaystyle...
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    and 'Latin font' scripts. Handwritten letter, 1792 Antiqua–Fraktur dispute Blackletter Fraktur (script) Wikimedia Commons has media related to German Kurrent...
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  • L
    encodings. Blackletter persisted in Germany until the early 1940s. See Antiqua–Fraktur dispute For example, see the Diary of Samuel Pepys for 31 December 1661:...
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    are required to end or continue the sentence. In blackletter (Gothic or Fraktur) typography, the r rotunda ⟨ꝛ⟩ is sometimes used for et in place of the...
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    replaced by Fraktur from the mid 16th century onwards. In the course of the 18th and 19th centuries (but in Germany not until 1941), Fraktur gave way in...
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  • B
    (Germany) and Scandinavia continued to use forms of blackletter (particularly Fraktur), while England eventually adopted the humanist and antiqua scripts developed...
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  • e.g. børn [bʏdn] ("children"). The letter was used in both Antiqua and Fraktur from at least as early as the Christian III Bible. Under German influence...
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    1902-1903) Salzmann Antiqua (1913, Max Salzmann) Salzmann Fraktur + Kräftige Salzmann Fraktur (1911, Max Salzmann) Salzmann Kursiv (1911, Max Salzmann)...
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    Vinzenz Rockner, had considerable influence on the development of the fraktur style. "Theuerdank" is the name of the main protagonist in the work. The...
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  • Antiqua (before 1936) Heyse + Semi-Bold (1924, Friedrich Bauer) Leibniz Fraktur + Grobe (before 1936) Nofretete + Halbfette (before 1936) Olympia 1 + 2...
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  • Salzmann Fraktur + Kräftige Salzmann Fraktur (1912) A digital versions were made by Ralph M. Unger (Salzmann Fraktur, 2019), Delbanco (DS-Salzmann-Fraktur, 2001)...
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  • Windows 2.1) Wiesbaden Swing Bastard Breitkopf Fraktur Fette Fraktur (Fraktur Bold) Fletcher Fraktur Lucida Blackletter Old English Text Schwabacher...
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    right half ring U+1E9B ẛ Latin Small Letter Long S with dot above 0667 for Fraktur, Irish Gaelic, Old English Medievalist U+1E9C ẜ Latin Small Letter Long...
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