Schwabacher
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The [[German language|German]] word '''Schwabacher''' ({{pronounced|ˈʃvaːˌbaxər}}) refers to a specific [[blackletter]] [[typeface]]. The term derives from the village of [[Schwabach]].
==Characteristics==
[[Image:Gebrochene Schriften.png|thumb|overview on some blackletter typefaces]]
The small-letter ''g'' and the capital-letter ''H'' have particularly distinctive forms.
==History==
The Schwabacher was a blackletter typeface that evolved from [[textualis]] under the influence of Humanist type design in Italy. It was nearer to handwriting than the textualis style. In the 16th century, it was displaced by [[fraktur (typeface)|fraktur]] as the most-used [[German language|German]] typeface.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} It was still used occasionally until the mid 20th century.
Fraktur was abandoned, although widely-used before, by the [[Nazis]] with the ''Schrifterlass'' of [[3 January]] [[1941]], where it is called ''Schwabacher Judenlettern'' "Jew-letters of Schwabach".{{Fact|date=February 2007}} There is however no evidence of any actual connection between Jews and the Schwabacher typeface.
==Samples==
[[Image:Fraktur alte schwabacher.png|right|framed|Schwabacher]]
''(The German sentence in the figures reads: "Beispiel Alte Schwabacher [Example of old Schwabacher]: Victor jagt zwölf Boxkämpfer quer über den Sylter Deich". This is a nonsense sentence meaning "Victor chases twelve box fighters across the dike of [[Sylt]]", but contains all 26 letters of the alphabet plus the German [[Umlaut (diacritic)|umlauts]] and is thus an example of a [[pangram]].)''
==External links==
* [http://www.spd-schwabach.de/content/service/schrift/ Information about Schwabacher (in German)]
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