Blackletter: Type & National Identity EyeMag Peter Biľak

Peter Biľak

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Blackletter: Type & National Identity EyeMag Peter BiľakBlackletter type, also known as Fraktur or German Gothic, originated with Gutenbergs moveable type, and was based on the contemporary calligraphy of that time. (A man of his time making the types of his time. That makes sense.) From the sixteenth century on, it shared the spotlight with roman type in German speaking countries and was even adopted for the printing of Martin Luthers writings. Yet by the twentieth century it was increasingly spurned by