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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.
12 Oct 2003 — 11:59am
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.
12 Oct 2003 — 1:53pm
Much obliged, Meredith, I've always wanted to know that.
12 Oct 2003 — 2:32pm
Dont forget those scary lowercase k and r as well.