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This led me to look up the origins of Fraktur, that typeface having been commissioned by Maximilian I for this extraordinary thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumphal_Arch_(woodcut)
Instead of having a monumental triumphal arch built, he got Dürer to print a monumental poster of a triumphal arch, and had copies of it stuck up in all the public places.
WOwolfi1gestern
BTW, Oliver Heaviside campaigned against Fraktur "German letters must go!" and I have to admit the do not look really good in math formulas, at least to my taste. He even claimed Germans would get short sighted by reading Fraktur (I didn't find the quote on the internet, so I have to look that up in my library if anyone is interested)
BXBXLE_1-1-BitIs1vor 17 Stunden
My high school English teacher chose Baskerville for the yearbook. This was back in the days when letterpress was still hanging on. Offset was mostly for short print runs. Both processes produced very fine resolution.
I remember when 300 dpi was a Xerox selling point while IBM was stuck at 240 for high speed printing. Now my cheap Brother does 600.
Serif fonts look better with higher dpi. Garamond tolerates lower dpi than modern serif fonts with finer features and curvatures.
I have a soft spot for Optima which is (was?) Xerox' official font, which coincidentally worked well on its printers.
NXnxobjectvor 18 Stunden
It's hilarious how this dispute captures the assumptions of each period... the 19th-century debate is completely unrecognizable.
HAhasleygestern
Today, far right-wing people in Germany use fraktur on shirts, cars etc. - even though it were the Nazis who abolished it.
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This led me to look up the origins of Fraktur, that typeface having been commissioned by Maximilian I for this extraordinary thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumphal_Arch_(woodcut) Instead of having a monumental triumphal arch built, he got Dürer to print a monumental poster of a triumphal arch, and had copies of it stuck up in all the public places.
BTW, Oliver Heaviside campaigned against Fraktur "German letters must go!" and I have to admit the do not look really good in math formulas, at least to my taste. He even claimed Germans would get short sighted by reading Fraktur (I didn't find the quote on the internet, so I have to look that up in my library if anyone is interested)
My high school English teacher chose Baskerville for the yearbook. This was back in the days when letterpress was still hanging on. Offset was mostly for short print runs. Both processes produced very fine resolution. I remember when 300 dpi was a Xerox selling point while IBM was stuck at 240 for high speed printing. Now my cheap Brother does 600. Serif fonts look better with higher dpi. Garamond tolerates lower dpi than modern serif fonts with finer features and curvatures. I have a soft spot for Optima which is (was?) Xerox' official font, which coincidentally worked well on its printers.
It's hilarious how this dispute captures the assumptions of each period... the 19th-century debate is completely unrecognizable.
Today, far right-wing people in Germany use fraktur on shirts, cars etc. - even though it were the Nazis who abolished it.