14 Facts About Fraktur

From this, Fraktur is sometimes contrasted with the "Latin alphabet" in northern European texts, which is sometimes called the "German alphabet", simply being a typeface of the Latin alphabet.

Some Fraktur typefaces include a variant form of the letter r known as the r rotunda, and many include a variety of ligatures which are left over from cursive handwriting and have rules for their use.

Fraktur quickly overtook the earlier Schwabacher and Textualis typefaces in popularity, and a wide variety of Fraktur fonts were carved and became common in the German-speaking world and areas under German influence.

Typesetting in Fraktur was still very common in the early 20th century in all German-speaking countries and areas, as well as in Norway, Estonia, and Latvia, and was still used to a very small extent in Sweden, Finland and Denmark, even though other countries typeset in Antiqua.

Fraktur typefaces remained in use in Nazi Germany, when they were initially represented as true German script; official Nazi documents and letterheads employed the font, and the cover of Hitler's used a hand-drawn version of it.

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Martin Bormann issued a circular to all public offices which declared Fraktur to be (Jewish letters) and prohibited their further use.

Fraktur saw a brief resurgence after the war, but thereafter fell out of common use.

Fraktur is today used mostly for decorative typesetting: for example, a number of traditional German newspapers such as the, as well as the Norwegian, still print their name in Fraktur on the masthead and it is popular for pub signs and the like.

Individual Fraktur letters are sometimes used in mathematics, which often denotes associated or parallel concepts by the same letter in different fonts.

The Fraktur is sometimes used to denote the cardinality of the continuum, that is, the cardinality of the real line.

Fraktur is used in other ways at the discretion of the author.

Fraktur is still used among traditional Anabaptists to print German texts, while Kurrent is used as hand writing for German texts.

Instead, Fraktur is considered a "presentation form" of the Latin alphabet.

Thus, the additional ligatures that are required for Fraktur typefaces will not be encoded in Unicode: support for these ligatures is a font engineering issue left up to font developers.