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card_zeroabout 2 hours ago
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.

vintermann27 minutes ago
A pioneer in virtual reality technology, that Maximilian.
jdnierabout 1 hour ago
Seriously, wow.
hasley10 minutes ago
Today, far right-wing people in Germany use fraktur on shirts, cars etc. - even though it were the Nazis who abolished it.