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Fraktur
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The History of Black Letter
Back in the middle ages, black letter was considered practical for monastic scribes copying out entire books by hand. Den reynolds is an american type designer and historian who has been living in germany for the last two decades. And he says that to day, we're used to type faces with perfectly rounded curves. But while these shapes look easy enough to draw, if you're using a quill to draw out thousands of them page after page, they're not.
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