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Adhesive Nr. Seven

The idea was to take a blackletter typeface out of its tainted historical context by recreating its texture with contemporary tools.

In adhesive paper type I found similar characteristics as a broad pen… at least the fixed stroke thickness. For the glyph shapes I drew inspiration from Schmale Deutsche Anzeigenschrift (the Minuscules) and Tannenberg Fett (the Majuscules), but I tweaked certain characters for legibility.

Initially, this blackletter face was developed as a headline lettering concept for an Austrian creative economy magazine.
Unsurprisingly, the concept was rejected – the publisher feared to come under criticism, which use of Fraktur-related typefaces still
provokes in Austria.


Design: Roland Hörmann
2008

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