Blackletter: Type & National Identity KSmallPubs systems-oriented approach to graphic design

systems-oriented approach to graphic design

The piece by Edward Karr was a pleasant surprise

This is the third in a series of books featuring original lettering by designers

Rudolf von Larisch

Blackletter: Type & National Identity KSmallPubs systems-oriented approach to graphic designBlackletter 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