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Grobe Cicero Fractur Gemein № 2

19th century matrices – before there were typeface brand names

 

To a typographer, a ‘grobe gemeine Fraktur’ is the lowercase of a bold (i.e. halbfette) blackletter. To everybody else, it must sound like a ‘cruel, crude bone fracture’.

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Uploaded on December 28, 2011
Taken in November 2011