49 points | by buzzy_hacker 3 days ago ago
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This led me to look up the origins of Fraktur, that typeface having been commissioned by Maximilian I for this extraordinary thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumphal_Arch_(woodcut)
Instead of having a monumental triumphal arch built, he got Dürer to print a monumental poster of a triumphal arch, and had copies of it stuck up in all the public places.
A pioneer in virtual reality technology, that Maximilian.
Seriously, wow.
Today, far right-wing people in Germany use fraktur on shirts, cars etc. - even though it were the Nazis who abolished it.
Alas, yes. (Though compare the Anarchistische Pogo Partei Deutschlands.)
Of course, these wannabe guys use the proper fraktur. They usually use the wrong s and don't care about proper ligatures.
This led me to look up the origins of Fraktur, that typeface having been commissioned by Maximilian I for this extraordinary thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumphal_Arch_(woodcut)
Instead of having a monumental triumphal arch built, he got Dürer to print a monumental poster of a triumphal arch, and had copies of it stuck up in all the public places.
A pioneer in virtual reality technology, that Maximilian.
Seriously, wow.
Today, far right-wing people in Germany use fraktur on shirts, cars etc. - even though it were the Nazis who abolished it.
Alas, yes. (Though compare the Anarchistische Pogo Partei Deutschlands.)
Of course, these wannabe guys use the proper fraktur. They usually use the wrong s and don't care about proper ligatures.