Antiqua–Fraktur dispute
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The Antiqua–Fraktur dispute was a typographical dispute in 19th- and early 20th-century Germany.
Two typefaces: the German text uses Fraktur; numerals and Latin and French words are written in Antiqua (1768).
Sütterlin
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Sütterlinschrift is the last widely used form of Kurrent, the historical form of German handwriting script that evolved alongside German blackletter typefaces. Graphic artist Ludwig Sütterlin was comm
Antiqua–Fraktur dispute
…edict of 3 January 1941 at first forbade only the use of blackletter typefaces. A second memorandum banned the use of Kurrent handwriting, including Sütterlin, which had only been introduced in the 1920s. From the academic year 1941/42 onwards, only the so-called Normalschrift ("normal script"), which had…
First exercises in Sütterlin in a school notebook (1953)