> Martin Bormann issued a circular (the "normal type decree") to all public offices which declared Fraktur (and its corollary, the Sütterlin-based handwriting) to be Judenlettern (Jewish letters) and prohibited their further use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur

I don't know if you meant to invoke pro/anti-Nazi associations with this typeface but it's unfortunate that such a fantastic lettering style carries around a poisonous historical connotation.

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Suzuran 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I am aware (of the Judenlettern decree). The reference to exactly this was intentional.

(Edit to make this really obvious: The joke here is that "fraktur = nazis" became such a meme that the nazis themselves were annoyed by it and forbade its use, but this is exactly the kind of thing the present administration would either be unaware of or simply ignore and then use fraktur intentionally to pander to neo-nazis.)

	▲	Y_Y 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks for spelling it out. I had a feeling that's the point you were making, but that level of subtlety has a hard time getting through, even on highbrow hn. Hence I like to err on the side of spelling things out, especially since I'm much more often a reader than a writer.

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throwaway173738 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why is that poisonous? It sounds like Fraktur was rejected by Nazi Germany which isn’t a bad thing at all.

	▲	Y_Y 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Do you know anything about the Nazis, other than that they are bad? They used Fraktur extensively before 1941 and it's closely associated with Nazi imagery. This is all explained in that link I posted. I prefer to think of Lie groups, but it's rife in the Nazi propaganda of the 30s, official documents etc.