Fraktur
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Fraktur is a book hand of the Latin alphabet and any of several blackletter typefaces derived from this hand. It is designed such that the beginnings and ends of the individual strokes that make up ea
A Czech example of Fraktur: Title page of Česká mariánská muzika by Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic (1647) ("Cżeská maryánska muzyka" by old orthography)
Front page of Gustav Vasa's Bible from 1541, printed using Fraktur
Anti-Polish German notice in German-occupied Poland, 1939: "No entry for Poles!" written with fraktur (German: Zutritt für Polen verboten!)
Antiqua–Fraktur dispute
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The Antiqua–Fraktur dispute was a typographical dispute in 19th- and early 20th-century Germany.
Fraktur
…longer than elsewhere. Beginning in the 19th century, the use of Fraktur versus Antiqua (seen as modern) was the subject of controversy in Germany. The Antiqua–Fraktur dispute continued until 1941, when the Nazi government banned Fraktur typefaces; they remain in limited use today. Besides the 26 letters of the ISO basic Latin…
Two typefaces: the German text uses Fraktur; numerals and Latin and French words are written in Antiqua (1768).