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weinzierllast Wednesday at 10:56 PM6 repliesview on HN

Leaders and typefaces:

In 1941 Adolf Hitler personally gave order to make the use of the Antiqua mandatory and forbade the use of Fraktur and Schwabacher typefaces.

https://ligaturix.de/bormann.htm


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danglast Thursday at 5:09 AM

(We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224867. It's fine and interesting, but the offtopicness of you-know-who is a bit too agitating at the top of the thread.)

1970-01-01last Wednesday at 11:45 PM

Forgive my ignorance but this seems to be one of the most neutral things Hitler did. He just didn't like the font so he ordered it to be changed. Equivalent to your boss ordering tabs be used instead of spaces. After the war was lost the arguments just continued. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua%E2%80%93Fraktur_disput...

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vesseneslast Wednesday at 11:41 PM

If you read the article, Calibri usage was instituted during the Biden administration. So, there's probably a diversity of government styles that get involved with typefaces.

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denkmoonlast Wednesday at 11:35 PM

Fascism relies on politicisation of aesthetic

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blueflowlast Wednesday at 11:03 PM

And they still found a way to blame it on the jews.