National (font)
National is a broken grotesque font that was developed in 1933 by Walter Höhnisch in the wake of Tannenberg for the Ludwig & Mayer type foundry . The appearance is characterized by tall, slim types. It is primarily suitable as a poster font.
Quote
“Actually, the typical“ German ”fonts in the Nazi sense were not the traditional or the newly created Renaissance Fraktur fonts; rather, they were hard, pseudo-Gothic fonts that had almost nothing to do with Fraktur or Schwabacher formally. They were related to the sensitive textura like the grotesque to the antiqua. The fonts had names like "Tannenberg" , "National", "Gotenburg" and the like. The typesetters ironically called them »high boots grotesque«. "
Cuts
Between 1933 and 1938 a total of eight styles were released: normal (1934), oblique (1937), Werk-Garnitur (1938), half fat (1934), bold (1934), narrow-skinny (1937), narrow-half-fat (1933) and light (1935 ). In addition, there were decorative capitals .
Web links
- Andreas Koop: Tannenberg exTra Tempore, in NOVUM, August 2009 (PDF; 1.1 MB)
- Font Wiki: National by Walter Höhnisch
- romane-hamburg.de: Font sample
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Peter Willberg: Die Fraktur und der Nationalismus , in: Die Gazette, May 2001 edition ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Klingspor Museum: Ludwig & Mayer. Retrieved March 19, 2015 .
