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whirzle1 aka jecrt aka Josh is a 32.15 year old boy, has been a member since February 21, 2005, has scored 24,124 submissions, giving an average score of 1.07, helping 135 designs get printed.

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Jun 22 '06 by whirzle1
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Typography question

Okay typophiles - question:

I'm looking for a black letter font with plenty of fleurishes/ligatures. Any suggestions?

tesco on Jun 22 '06 at 12:48pm

depends on the context, there are lots of fonts like that

tesco on Jun 22 '06 at 12:52pm

click

and click on 'see more' too

Amelia84 on Jun 22 '06 at 12:53pm

www.dafont.com

whirzle1 on Jun 22 '06 at 12:54pm

yeah - I know, but do you have a favorite?

I'll narrow the question and limit it to traktur & textura black letter

tesco on Jun 22 '06 at 12:56pm

I like Fraktur, but thats pretty much the only one I have, except Old English

whirzle1 on Jun 22 '06 at 12:58pm

...I'm trying to avoid wading through a ton of fonts (i.e. work) by finding people with good taste in type list their preference...

kirksheltonart on Jun 22 '06 at 12:58pm

whats a black letter font with plenty of fleurishes/ligatures?

tesco on Jun 22 '06 at 1:00pm

mariage looks pretty hot

whirzle1 on Jun 22 '06 at 1:01pm

traktur = fraktur

there's a lot of cariation in the fraktur subfamily, though. For instance, Fette Fraktur is my preferred blackletter fraktur, but I'm looking for something with more fleurishes.

whirzle1 on Jun 22 '06 at 1:02pm

cariation = variation

my typing sucks...

mighty moody mut on Jun 22 '06 at 1:04pm

what do you think of wyienck-fraktur initialen & zier?

if you like that i can tell you more.

www.moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/steffmann

whirzle1 on Jun 22 '06 at 1:11pm

tesco:

I like that - but I think I'm looking for something with a heavier stroke

mightymoodymut:

wow - dieter steffmann has a TON of great gotische fonts. Incredible. I think I'll look through some of those.

whirzle1 on Jun 22 '06 at 1:11pm

thanks for the help everyone! such smart kids...

mighty moody mut on Jun 22 '06 at 1:13pm

maybe you should check out the book FRAKTUR MON AMOUR �

beautifully done!!!

whirzle1 on Jun 22 '06 at 1:26pm

I remember seeing something about that on typophile.com

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