Typophile - Where is the Blackletter - Comments

Hi vincent, What font would

machismo — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:27:46 -0700

Hi vincent,

What font would this one be.... The one in the 3rd tuesday image on page 1.

machismo

Here is an interesting new

fontplayer — Sun, 28 May 2006 06:47:22 -0700

Here is an interesting new blackletter-hand I came across this morning.

yes, thanks very much for

Hannah — Sat, 27 May 2006 20:35:04 -0700

yes, thanks very much for your input. Alot more useful on this site compared to our uni one that mainly digital/media people use.

Central Question “Can

dan_reynolds — Sat, 27 May 2006 04:54:14 -0700

Central Question
“Can validity be restored to blackletter?”
How do German’s view blackletter today (I will wait to see if anyone active on here before answering your quesiton).

I’ve tried to answer some of this in your thread here:
http://typophile.com/node/20252#comment-125672

That is very nice, I like

Hannah — Fri, 26 May 2006 23:10:23 -0700

That is very nice,

I like how the ligatures and terminals have that very sleek kind of adornment to them.

blackletter with all-lc

fontplayer — Fri, 26 May 2006 22:42:17 -0700

blackletter with all-lc setting

One I like found HERE?

New member: Hi, in response

Hannah — Fri, 26 May 2006 22:11:34 -0700

New member:

Hi, in response to your post below (and hopefully there are still people checking this forum):

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“”“Hi,
As I just recently stumbled about this forum, I hope there is still someone…
Now my Question:
I am doing now the final project in my graphic design studies and my theme is treating the
recognition and usage of blackletter typefaces in our times.
As I am german it is pretty clear to me how it is in the german speaking area.
What I am more interested in is how other cultures see and “feel” those typefaces.
What associations are made and so on…

So, I am really interested in other points of you, far from the beer and nationalist cliché.

@diego m: Maybe I could contact you to get to know the latino point of view?

I am happy about all replys, Thank you”“”“”“”“”
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Glad to hear your from Germany. I’m a New Zealander and also doing a final year project on Blackletter:

Central Question
“Can validity be restored to blackletter?”

How do German’s view blackletter today (I will wait to see if anyone active on here before answering your quesiton).

Hannah

Hi, As I just recently

saidlechat — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:27:54 -0700

Hi,
As I just recently stumbled about this forum, I hope there is still someone...
Now my Question:
I am doing now the final project in my graphic design studies and my theme is treating the
recognition and usage of blackletter typefaces in our times.
As I am german it is pretty clear to me how it is in the german speaking area.
What I am more interested in is how other cultures see and “feel” those typefaces.
What associations are made and so on...

So, I am really interested in other points of you, far from the beer and nationalist cliché.

@diego m: Maybe I could contact you to get to know the latino point of view?

I am happy about all replys, Thank you

Germany also sought to

timd — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:22:15 -0700

Germany also sought to develop a sphere of influence, economic and political, in Mexico both before and after the Revolution, maybe that included printing presses and typefaces.
Tim

Cristina, yes, that’s a

hrant — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:45:34 -0700

Cristina, yes, that’s a superb thesis subject - good luck with it! And I hope you share the results here. As for that blackletter book you mention, it’s actually what first triggered my interest in the style. That and a thick German novel set in 1905, which seemed shockingly readable to me.

hhp

Here’s a theory:

Nick Shinn — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:45:24 -0700

Here’s a theory: Blackletter was a trendy face worldwide (as part of the Arts & Crafts movement that was such a force in the first mass media) at the time of the Mexican Revolution. Perhaps that association has imbued it with a Mexican-ness.

You are right. In my case,

Cristina Paoli — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:34:03 -0700

You are right. In my case, since I’ll work with vernacular graphics, I’ll be searching for any blackletter-ish type: textura, rotunda, schwabacher and fraktur.

But I promise that if I find a fraktur-ish Mexican vernacular type I’ll post it immediatly for you.

I recommend the following

Cristina Paoli — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:22:32 -0700

I recommend the following book:

Blackletter: Type and National Identity.
Edited by Peter Bain and Paul Shaw
ISBN 1-56898-125-2

It contains good essays on the subject and gives a great overview on blackletter history.

Fraktur or Blackletter?

paul d hunt — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 06:51:09 -0700

Fraktur or Blackletter? I’d like to see Mexican Fraktur...

Hello everyone. I’m new

Cristina Paoli — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 06:39:11 -0700

Hello everyone. I’m new here. I’m a mexican graphic designer studying an MA in Graphic Design in London. I’m so happy that I found this blog, because I been thinking on making my thesis exactly on fraktur type in Mexico!!!!!! This idea has been in my mind for a long time, but I always thought that no many people would agree. I would like to know why is such a Germanic element taken by Mexicans and completely changed in terms of what it imply.
Certainly by reading all your comments I been inspired. Thanks, and hope this conversation continues.

Where is the Blackletter

chris_washer — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:59:36 -0800

Hey,

I am wondering what blackletter faces are usually used for. I should mention that I am from New Zealand, which is a very, very young country. The only time I see blackletter faces around here are for fashion labels (on the goth bandwagon) and heavy metal record covers. Or not-heavy-metal-record-covers that are being ironic. The covers are mostly foreign (i.e. American, British) anyway.

Oh right, and on newspaper titles.

So, where else arethey be used?

- Chris