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Fraktur
99% Invisible
Is It OK to Use Black Letter to Day?
By 19 forty five, when germany was finally defeated, no one wanted anything to do with thee nase fit. By the 19 fifties, it had pretty much died out. I think i saw some statistics that between 19 51 and 19 79, there was only 34 books published in fractur in that whole period. So that's quite astonishing. Whether or not it's ok to use black letter to day is a complicated question. It depends on the context, and it doesn't always make sense. Ye factur on on a restaurant sign or on a beal label, is invisible. And you can find e bacthe mast heads newspapers like new york times,.
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