Kurrent is an old form of German handwriting based on blackletter, specifically the Fraktur typeface. It is known in full as Kurrentschrift, or as Alte Deutsche Schrift. In American English, its name has been seen shortened to Schrift. A well-known, although very late form of it, is Sütterlin. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x1000, 75 KB) Description: example in typeface german Kurrent Source: selfmade image Date: 28. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x1000, 75 KB) Description: example in typeface german Kurrent Source: selfmade image Date: 28. ... Blackletter in a Latin Bible of AD 1407, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ... Fig. ... Sütterlin example in German The Sütterlinschrift, or Sütterlin for short, is a form of the old German blackletter handwriting (Spitzschrift) that was designed by and named after Ludwig Sütterlin, a German graphical designer and teacher who was commissioned to do so by the Prussian ministry for...
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Another version, by Lars Erik Bryld, called Manu Gothica
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