Secretary of State Rubio has concluded that Calibri is a woke font. US diplomats must revert to Times New Roman in official communications.
Secretary of State Rubio has concluded that Calibri is a woke font. US diplomats must revert to Times New Roman in official communications.
Didn’t Nazi Germany ban a typefont for silly ideological reasons?
Fraktur is rather a ‘calligraphic hand’, i.e. the manner of drawing the letters, which can be implemented by different specific fonts.
Anyway, Hitler just personally disliked Fraktur, and already gave a speech against it in 1934:
Then in 1941 Fraktur was finally banned, with the pretext that it was actually not Fraktur but Schwabacher, a different blackletter style, which allegedly was Jewish.
Moreover, it was banned so hard that cursive scripts Kurrent and Sütterlin were also forbidden — and as a consequence, people educated after 1941 often couldn’t read handwritten letters and notes of their ancestors.