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Fraktur

Feb 19, 2020

37:25

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Episode notes

Introduction

1min

German Black Letter Typefaces

2min

Black Litter - The One Thing That Really Drives the Point Home

2min

The History of Black Letter

2min

The History of Black Letter Typefaces

2min

Roman Con Rolls Off the Tongue

2min

Roman Type and the German Language

1min

German Typefaces - Fractur

2min

German National Identity - The Fractur

1min

10.

Roman Type - The German Language of the Middle Ages

2min

11.

Roman Replaces Fractur

2min

12.

The Third Rikh

2min

13.

The Death of the Black Letter

2min

14.

Is It OK to Use Black Letter to Day?

2min

15.

What the Hell Is This?

2min

16.

German Nationalism - The Black Letter Fascis

2min

17.

How to Read and Write Old German Curse

2min

18.

Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again

2min

19.

The Proposed Executive Order Is a 180 Degree Reversal to a Seminol Document

2min

20.

The Architecture Community Reacted Very Strongly to This Order

2min

21.

Classical Architecture Is Not a Bad Idea, Is It?

4min

If you have ever caught even one minute of the history channel, you have seen fraktur. You’ve seen the font on Nazi posters, on Nazi office buildings, on Nazi roadwork signs. Today in Germany, blackletter typefaces are frequently used by Neo-Nazi groups and for many Germans, they bring to mind the dark times of the country’s fascist past. This is ironic because fraktur has a long and strange history that includes the font actually being banned by the Nazis.

Plus, we get an opinion from Kate Wagner (McMansion Hell) about “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again.”

Fraktur

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