| Date: 1793 Designer:
Johann Gottlieb Immanuel Breitkopf Foundry:
Breitkopf founder and printer Location:
Leipzig, Germany Current equivalent:
Breitkopf Fraktur (digitised by Dieter Steffmann) See also:
URW Breitkopf Fraktur D by Ralph Unger
Technologies:
Metal (foundry)
Postscript
Truetype | | Famous for:
Evolutionary model of blackletter Fraktur. Applications: Religious and Devotional Ubiquity:
Not widely used Category:
Blackletter Fraktur Stress: Angled
Serifs: Calligraphic | | Design history:
Breitkopf Fraktur was the preferred Fraktur of the German Baroque period. With wider proportions and a lower x-height than its predecessors, this graceful gothic type was modelled on the Neudörffer-Andreä Fraktur that had been used by Albrecht Durer in several of his works. Johann Breitkopf was a printer and type designer of Leipzig, well known for designing musical notation, who designed this eponymous type in the last year of his life. Thought by many to be the 'classic' Fraktur, it was immediately successful and remained popular until the advent of the 20th century, when it was recast by a number of foundries. | |  |
