47 points | by buzzy_hacker 3 days ago
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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.
A pioneer in virtual reality technology, that Maximilian.
Seriously, wow.
Today, far right-wing people in Germany use fraktur on shirts, cars etc. - even though it were the Nazis who abolished it.
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.
A pioneer in virtual reality technology, that Maximilian.
Seriously, wow.
Today, far right-wing people in Germany use fraktur on shirts, cars etc. - even though it were the Nazis who abolished it.