- Schwabacher
The German word Schwabacher (pronounced|ˈʃvaːˌbaxər) refers to a specific
blackletter typeface . The term derives from the village ofSchwabach .Characteristics
The small-letter "g" and the capital-letter "H" have particularly distinctive forms.
History
The Schwabacher was a blackletter typeface that evolved from
textualis under the influence of Humanist type design in Italy. It was nearer to handwriting than the textualis style. In the 16th century, it was displaced by fraktur as the most-used German typeface.Fact|date=February 2007 It was still used occasionally until the mid 20th century.Fraktur was abandoned, although widely-used before, by the
Nazis with the "Schrifterlass" of3 January 1941 , where it is called "Schwabacher Judenlettern" "Jew-letters of Schwabach".Citation
author = Burke, Christopher
year = 1998
title = Paul Renner: The Art of Typography
pages = 165-167
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=zfT0Iam0q7AC&pg=PA165&vq=the+nazi+ban+on+gothic&dq=paul+renner+the+art+of+typography+1998&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1_1&sig=ACfU3U1n-wRygIgMgqEaMyw_VJ-3wE9g5Q
isbn = 9781568981581
publisher = Princeton Architectural Press
location = New York ] There is however no evidence of any actual connection between Jews and the Schwabacher typeface.amples
"(The German sentence in the figures reads: "Beispiel Alte Schwabacher [Example of old Schwabacher] : Victor jagt zwölf Boxkämpfer quer über den Sylter Deich". This is a nonsense sentence meaning "Victor chases twelve box fighters across the dike of
Sylt ", but contains all 26 letters of the alphabet plus the German umlauts and is thus an example of apangram .)"External links
* [http://www.spd-schwabach.de/content/service/schrift/ Information about Schwabacher (in German)]
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