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Font of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New Roman
(www.theguardian.com)
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Switching to German Fraktur typeface would've been too on the nose.
The Nazis abolished Fraktur because they were thought to be influenced by Hebrew letters. They preferred Antiqua after 1941. There’s a bit of interesting history surrounding fonts and the Nazis. Their party newspaper Völkischer Beobachter used a font designed by a Jew.
The debate had actually been going on for a while between Fraktur and Antiqua. In the past Fraktur was used to write German, while Antiqua was used for Latin. The debate is known as the "Antiqua-Fraktur-Streit" and was going on in Germany since the 18th century. In the late 19th century it became very heated when several movements tried to make their preferred font the standard in the wake of standardizations for spelling. During the Weimar republic both were taught in schools, Antiqua for Latin and Fraktur for German.
Now you'd think someone like Hitler would love a classical German font, but Hitler found the usage of Fraktur "backward-looking" and the artsy, ornate style of Fraktur not fitting for the new age of technology and strong Aryans. They even prohibited the usage of Fraktur in some publications.
It's actually pretty hilarious that Fraktur is associated with Nazis now when Hitler was pretty outspoken about hating it and tried very hard to abolish it.