Antiqua–Fraktur dispute
Typographical dispute in the 19th- and early 20th-century in Germany / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Antiqua–Fraktur dispute was a typographical dispute in 19th- and early 20th-century Germany.
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In most European countries, blackletter typefaces like the German Fraktur were displaced with the creation of the Antiqua typefaces in the 15th and 16th centuries. However, in Germany and Austria, the two styles of printing coexisted until the first half of the 20th century.
During that time, both styles gained ideological connotations in Germany, which led to long and heated disputes on what was the "correct" typeface to use. The eventual outcome was that the Antiqua-style typefaces prevailed, when the Nazi Party chose to put an end to the use of Fraktur in favor of "normal typeface" (German: Normalschrifterlass).