When I was young there was an old German poster in my family kitchen that used to drive me insane, because although I knew it was in German, I couldn’t read what was written on it. It looked to me like another language! “It’s because that is old German handwriting”, my mum told me. “Some of the letters look very different.” Today I’d like to show you what old German handwriting looks like, should you ever be faced with the same, confusing situation!
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Like Textura and Schwabacher before it, Fraktur is a Blackletter typeface — or a gebrochene Schrift in German, which means “broken font.” This is a typeface where the bends of the letters are angular or “broken,” as abrupt changes in stroke direction make the letters look quite harsh. 11 Free Blackletter, Old German, Gothic Fonts 1001 Fonts. We have 11 free blackletter, old german, gothic fonts to offer for direct downloading 1001 Fonts is your favorite site for free fonts since 2001. Typesetting Old German standards of their time. Especially Cnger's font seems to lay more in the lgth century spirit. Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf (1719 - 1794) lived in Leipzig. He travelled a lot, studied French, English and other foreign fonts and wrote an article (Breitkopf 1793) on the situation of typographers.
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A little history first!
Old German Handschrift (handwriting), known as die Kurrentschrift or Kurrent for short in German, but also known simply as die alte deutsche Schrift (‘Old German script’), was closely modelled on the handwriting used in das Mittelalter (medieval times).
An updated version of Kurrent called Sütterlin was developed in the early 20th Century, and was used and taught in German schools until the government changed it to deutsche Normalschrift (‘normal German script’). This updated handwriting resembled das lateinisches Alphabet (Latin alphabet) more closely, and is the German handwriting that is still used and taught today.
Significant differences between old and new German handwriting
A point of confusion with old German handwriting is that some of its letters don’t look like their modern counterparts. The characters for c, e, n, m, and u, for example, all look very similar, while the h looks more like an f. If you are interested in learning what the old letters look like, study this photo of Kurrentschrift to familiarise yourself with them:
Kurrentschrift:
By Deutsche_Kurrentschrift.jpg: AndreasPraefckederivative work: Martin Kozák (Deutsche_Kurrentschrift.jpg) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Sütterlin (the updated version of Kurrent, used in early 20th Century):
By Der Barbar [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Deutsche Normalschrift:
By Anhang zu RdErl. d. RMfWEV v. 1.9.1941 (Reichsministerium für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Unlike old German, modern German handwriting is fairly easy to read and follow. Be sure to look out for the number 1, which can resemble a 7 at times. This is especially important when it comes to addressing letters and giving card details, for example!
Here is a card sent to me by my German aunt, so you can see what modern German handwriting looks like ‘in action’!
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