Breitkopf Fraktur
Breitkopf Fraktur is a Blackletter font designed by typographer and German music publisher Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf (1719–1794). Breitkopf was the son of the publisher Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, founder of the publishing house Breitkopf & Härtel, a firm that continues to the present day. Breitkopf supervised the creation of the typeface, produced in his office as early as 1750.
Breitkopf Fraktur
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- Breitkopf Fraktur
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- 1750
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Breitkopf Fraktur is a Blackletter font designed by typographer and German music publisher Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf (1719–1794). Breitkopf was the son of the publisher Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, founder of the publishing house Breitkopf & Härtel, a firm that continues to the present day. Breitkopf supervised the creation of the typeface, produced in his office as early as 1750.
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The type design was performed by punchcutters Christian Zinck, Johann Michael Schmidt and Johann Peter Astropacus, based on an old fraktur typeface called Neudörffer-Andreä Fraktur, discovered by Breitkopf when he was printing Dürer's Unterweysung. In that sense, Breitkopf Fraktur marks a departure from the overly ornate Baroque shapes popular at the time, and a return to the austere calligraphic roots of Fraktur typefaces. Digital versions of Breitkopf Fraktur are available through several digital type foundries.
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• Name — Breitkopf Fraktur • Style — Blackletter
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- 1.Carl Berendt Lorck. Die Schrift und die Illustration. 1883. 718906600.
- 2.Sonja Steiner-Welz. Von der Schrift und den Schriftarten. 2003. 978-3-937636-47-4.
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