{"id":11636,"date":"2020-02-20T08:10:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T16:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=11636"},"modified":"2020-02-20T08:42:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T16:42:10","slug":"typography-the-super-fraught-history-of-blackletter-fraktur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/20\/typography-the-super-fraught-history-of-blackletter-fraktur\/","title":{"rendered":"Typography: The super-fraught history of Blackletter\/Fraktur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, who knew just how much cultural identity could be wrapped up in a style of printing?<\/p>\n<p>This excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/episode\/fraktur\/\">99% Invisible episode<\/a> covers the origins of blackletter printing (faster &amp; more reliable for medieval scribes), the culture wars (from Luther to Napoleon) in which it battled Roman faces, its association with (and revilement by!) Nazis, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus: stick around for a discussion of revanchist, Trumpian mandates around government architecture, featuring that delightful term of art, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Maga%20chud\">CHUD<\/a>. <em>*chef\u2019s kiss*<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/episode\/fraktur\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UntitledImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/UntitledImage-10.png\" alt=\"UntitledImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, who knew just how much cultural identity could be wrapped up in a style of printing? This excellent 99% Invisible episode covers the origins of blackletter printing (faster &amp; more reliable for medieval scribes), the culture wars (from Luther to Napoleon) in which it battled Roman faces, its association with (and revilement by!) Nazis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11638,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636\/revisions\/11638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}