In 1938 the Frankfurt-based foundry Ludwig & Mayer released Eugen Weiss’ beautiful fraktur ‚Hoelderlin‘. Carefully redrawn and redesigned, this digitized version is intended to add another gem to the enthusiasts’ treasure drove of blackletter types.
The font contains the historical long s which can be reached by the OpenType feature historical forms or by typing the summation sign [ ∫ ].
Parler Gotisch has got a companion – Parler Fraktur. Friedrich Poppl’s beautiful and harmonious blackletter font was completely redrawn and redesigned for modern use. The font contains also a ‚long s‘ which can be reached either by the OpenType feature
In the wake of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution there was a desire for a clear classical blackletter font without frills. That is why in 1793 the famous printer and editor Johann Friedrich Unger and his partner Johann Christian