Blackletter, or Fraktur (as it's known in German), was used all over Europe during the Middle Ages and through the early years of the printing press. As the rest of the continent gave blackletter up, though, Protestant Germans held on to Fraktur (Roman type was Papist, you understand), and, by the early 20th century, the […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM on February 20, 2020