2/2 of the letterpress printing, which because of the guild restrictions was absolutely impossible. So subsequently there were used #Antiqua typefonts (like today). The Nazi printers weren't happy about the decision, eg Adolf Müller, printer of the party organ "Völkischer Beobachter", who loved the "aura" of the script he had always been using. This script was the Bernhard-Fraktur. It was, by the way, designed by the #Jewish graphic designer Lucian Bernhard in 1913.
#antisemitism #history

@drrjv The #Nazis originally had endorsed #Fraktur and other blackletter type fonts such as #Schwabacher, because these were considered #German and patriotic, but quickly outlawed them in 1941 and instead forced #Antiqua and similar #Latin style fonts onto their population after conquering other countries - allegedly because noone there could decypher these fonts. They even defamed them as "Schwabacher Judenlettern". That does however, not mean that #DorkMAGA #SpaceKaren isn't a #fascist.

#TIL:
ẜ
Long s with stroke.
The letter actually in use, according to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur#Characteristics
in #Latvia, before they finally switched to #Antiqua

While proofreading, I observed 2 distinct ways #Typography is realised in the 1674 #EthicaComplementoria print from Copenhagen. This can happen when more than one worker is typesetting the print. Let's call them Villads & Emil. Villads has been doing this job for a while now; he routinely typesets all #Latin words w/ a beautiful cursive #Antiqua font. Emil, who's already having difficulty reading the #German text, uses #Fraktur for everything & only sets Latin proverbs in cursive. #BookHistory

@enbyneo
Das lang-ſ gibt’s auch in #Antiqua. Aber da Aus- eine Vorsilbe ist, sollte man eigentlich immer Ausnahme statt Auſnahme schreiben.
#langesS #langesſ #ſ #langſ