@nicksherman what font was he talking about? DIN? thought of fraktur blackletter at first but that’s one the nazis banned
@sabbatical It wasn’t actually about any specific font:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byg8VZdKK88&t=445s
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@nicksherman haha, that makes a lot more sense. glad no poor innocent font is getting lambasted!
@sabbatical Though it’s worth noting that not all fonts are historically innocent in this regard!
https://typo.social/@nicksherman/110686839614199452
Attached: 1 image Yikes. I always knew there were sketchy ties between the Stempel type foundry and the Nazis, but I never realized it was such an explicit, marketed connection until I saw this page from a type specimen booklet for Tannenberg (c.1935) where they promote the larger wood type sizes by showing a poster for a speech by Joseph Goebbels and torch-light procession of Nazi stormtroopers. The photo of the poster is also credited to Hitler’s official photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicksherman/53033981172/
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