Swiss school script
The Swiss school script (also known locally as Schnüerlischrift ) is a Latin script , introduced in 1947. In addition, a printed script , the so-called stone script , is taught.
history
The predecessor of the Antiqua was a Kurrent script . In view of the development of international traffic in Switzerland and the fact that the country is multilingual, the desire arose for a uniform font. An initial suggestion came from Paul Hulliger . He created the so-called Hulliger script . This was adopted by ten cantons. After heated discussions, it was replaced by the now recognized Swiss school typeface in 1947. The Zofinger Eugen Kuhn and Karl Eigenmann were the main developers and co-editors of the book The Writing . Their aim was to create a standardized, easily readable Swiss school typeface.
The Swiss school typeface has been criticized for failing to meet the requirement for handwriting that is easy to write and yet legible. Your oversized capital letters have strongly curved shapes. It is often not possible to write all letters of a word without separating them.
Base font
In 2006 Hans Eduard Meier drafted a proposal for a new school font, the basic font . It is erect and resembles a grotesque . The capital letters remain the same in the coherent script. The basic font is similar to the German basic font.
Since 2007, the new basic script has been taught on an experimental basis in various parishes.
In autumn 2014, the German-Swiss Conference of Educational Directors recommended that the Swiss school script be abandoned in favor of the basic script, which will henceforth be called “German-Swiss basic script”. It is up to the cantons to implement this recommendation.
For the 2016/17 school year, the canton of Zurich became the 14th canton to introduce the new basic typeface recommended by the German-Swiss Conference of Educational Directors.
See also
literature
- Karl Eigenmann, Eugen Kuhn: Writing , Ernst Ingold & Co, Herzogenbuchsee 1948
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Světluše Solarová: Hulliger, Paul. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz ., Accessed on April 18, 2014
- ↑ NZZ: Pulling the rope around a contemporary school font. February 15, 2010, accessed October 15, 2011 .
- ↑ NZZ: Readable instead of “beautiful”. A new handwriting in Swiss schoolrooms. January 3, 2007, accessed June 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Goodbye Schnüerlischrift - now comes the basic font. Curved and painstakingly learned: the Schnüerlisch script, the epitome of primary school, is being replaced . In: Tages-Anzeiger from November 3, 2014.
- ↑ New school typeface also in Zurich: “Am Schnüerli” is from yesterday in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on January 6, 2016
- ↑ Zurich introduces basic font: No more stringed fonts in school in Blick.ch from January 6, 2016