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Less true than you might be aware yourself, actually. Think of written Russian. Did you think of beautiful cursive Cyrillic as Pushkin would've written or some
by qubex 8y ago
Less true than you might be aware yourself, actually.
Think of written Russian. Did you think of beautiful cursive Cyrillic as Pushkin would've written or some blocky reverse-R all caps propaganda text?
Wonder why literally everybody associates anything written in "German Gothic” (blackletter, actually, but I digress) is instantly associated with a guy with a Chaplin moustache but who isn't Chaplin?
Why Simplified Chinese was designed to look good with printed serifs which interfered with the Traditional script's typography?
And I'm not even a graphic designer or a “font nerd”...
- ChrisRR 8y agoI associate German gothic text with beers
- qubex 8y agoAnd the Metal Umlaut?
- atoav 8y agoInteresting fact: the Nazis actually were trying to get rid of that old German Type and were introducing Sans Fonts a lot. So these old German typefaces are not inherently political and were only half a decade later adopted by neo nazis who have no deeper knowledge of it’s history. Or you could say, the extreme wish the Nazis had to look modern, got replaced by a wish to go back to a wrongly imagined past (which happens quite often on the extreme political fringes)
- qubex 8y agoYou’re right, that indeed is very interesting. I have to admit I was totally unaware of this. Thanks for sharing.