Project 2 Gallery

Kunstrichtige Schreibart appeared during a watershed moment in the history of typography and calligraphy, when, in the Reformation’s wake, German handwriting educators broke from the traditions of Italianate penmanship and revived the Fraktur script, preferring Gothic pointedness to fanciful whorls and rococo loops. This was also an era when calligraphic writing emerged as an artform… “read more”->

Why style is essential?  Kunstrichtige Schreibart appeared during a watershed moment in the history of typography and calligraphy, when, in the Reformation’s wake, German handwriting educators broke from the traditions of Italianate penmanship and revived the Fraktur script, preferring Gothic pointedness to fanciful whorls and rococo loops. This was also an era when calligraphic writing… “read more”->