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Subject:Re: Antwort: Re: Serif vs. sans serif? (Take II) From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:16:03 -0700
Kerstin -dot- Molthagen -at- etas -dot- de wrote:
>
> >Background: The Nazis used black letter fonts because they were more
> >"German." Typographers like Jan Tschichold [...] were
> >given a choice between imprisonment and leaving Germany [...]
>
> I am not sure that I understand you correctly. Unfortunately, I don't have
> the "black letter" font on my computer, so I am not exactly sure what font
> you are talking about. Do jou mean the one that's called "Fraktur" or
> (sometimes) "Gothic", more or less like the one used on this web site
Yes, those are the ones I meant.
> In that case, You're right that the Nazis used it - at least for a time,
> that is. In January 1941, they published a decree that prohibited any
> further use of the font they called "Schwabacher Judenlettern". You can
> find a copy of the decree at http://www.e-welt.net/BfdS/DS-Verbot.htm -
> it's German, but I could not find an English translation on the Web.
Thanks for the confirmation. I should add for clarity's sake that
Tschichold, who was an avant-garde designer, went into exile some time
in the Thirties.
He eventually ended up in England, where he overhauled the standard
layouts for Penguin Books in the late Forties. Some of the books
designed to his standards can still be found in second hand stores, and
they're among the most attractive cheap paperbacks ever printed.
--
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