A standard design that emerged in the 19th century. Available
from most German foundries in the late 19th and early 20th century,
in numerous hardly distinguishable versions, under various names,
and often simply named Fraktur. Among the non-generic
names are Achilles-, Ariadne-, Arminius-, Ceres-, Egmont-,
Fröbel-, Gutenberg-Jubiläums-, Jänecke, Merkantil-, Merzbach-,
Pressa-, Romulus-, Silesia-, Stadion-, Teutonia-Fraktur etc.
pp. Some came in two or three weights. The black weight is known as
Fette
Fraktur.
Gerhard Helzel has digitized several versions from various
sources and sizes, including Normal-Fraktur
(idealized), Büxenstein-, Germanen- (AKA
Normannia-), Gutenberg-,
Mars- More…
A standard design that emerged in the 19th century. Available from most German foundries in the late 19th and early 20th century, in numerous hardly distinguishable versions, under various names, and often simply named Fraktur. Among the non-generic names are Achilles-, Ariadne-, Arminius-, Ceres-, Egmont-, Fröbel-, Gutenberg-Jubiläums-, Jänecke, Merkantil-, Merzbach-, Pressa-, Romulus-, Silesia-, Stadion-, Teutonia-Fraktur etc. pp. Some came in two or three weights. The black weight is known as Fette Fraktur.
Gerhard Helzel has digitized several versions from various sources and sizes, including Normal-Fraktur (idealized), Büxenstein-, Germanen- (AKA Normannia-), Gutenberg-, Mars- (AKA Romeo-), Weber-, Zeitungs-Fraktur. His Fehsenfeld- and Radebeul-Fraktur are based on editions of books by Karl May from c.1870 and c.1890 respectively. Other digitizations include DS-Normal-Fraktur (Delbanco, 1997–98) and Buchfraktur (RMU, 2015).
