Dfr Blackletter

hadj_ullelah's picture

Does anyone know what exactly the "Dfr" stands for, that is affixed to the names of the alternate versions of many, if not most, blackletter fonts (eg. Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch, Goudy Text et al.)?

My guess is something like "Deutsch Fraktur", because these versions seem to have the long s required for authentic old-time German as well as Umlaut versions of A, O and U.

But then, knowing beats guessing, so if anyone knows for sure, I'd be most grateful.

meredithalix's picture

Exactly right, Hadj. "Deutsche Fraktur" is a standard encoding that replaces the Latin s with the long s (and puts the Latin s where the asterisk would go), as well as replacing some punctuation marks with particular ligatures.

hadj_ullelah's picture

Much obliged, Meredith, I've always wanted to know that.

J.Montalbano's picture

Dont forget those scary lowercase k and r as well.

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