The name hints at its use: Schulbuch is German and means school book. Why was that font used in textbooks in elementary schools in Germany? Because this is wha

The name hints at its use: Schulbuch is German and means school book. Why was that font used in textbooks in elementary schools in Germany? Because this is what kids learn to write: http://i.imgur.com/LbQ7l.png http://i.imgur.com/LbQ7l.png But nowadays textbooks use changed variants of that font, actually – with a normal I. I think that has something to do with the decreasing importance of that cursive. Kids still learn it, sure, but it’s no longer as important and central as it was only, say, twenty years ago.