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Typography Tuesday

Ludlow Fraktur and Hebrew

The Ludlow Typograph was one of the four major type composing systems that survived through the 20th century (the others were Monotype, Linotype, and Intertype), and numerous typeface were designed specifically for its system. Today we show some Fraktur and Hebrew typefaces designed for the Ludlow Typograph.

German-reading peoples where the last group to relinquish the use of Gothic typefaces like Fraktur in the mid-20th century, and since, in our post-WWII imaginations, this kind of letterform is often associated with the Nazis (even though the Nazis themselves abolished it in 1941 after associating it with Jewish influences), it seems odd and even wrong to have it displayed along with Hebrew typefaces.

These specimens are displayed side by side in Ludlow Typefaces: A Specimen Book of Matrix Fonts, produced in Chicago around 1940, just before the Nazis jettisoned the use of Fraktur. The letterform itself has its roots in the late 12th century, and so has nothing to do with the National Socialist Party, except that the Nazis and all German-reading peoples used it until the 1940s because it was a letterform long associated with German national identity. And, of course, German Jews comfortably used Fraktur to read and write in German.

Read more about the Ludlow Typograph and its composing system in this post.

View some Ludlow ornaments and borders from this specimen book.

View our other Typography Tuesday posts.

#“from now on there shall be no more unnecessary loss of valuable time due to a lack of [type]script!” way to advertise guys #once i dreamed i was a codicologist

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But is ultimately very interesting and readable

Is my homework the Alleghenian orogeny. Because it's transpressing

#I am going to make it through this year etc #studia felicitatis

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#pistachio #bread. and. soup

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An angel unlocking the Door of Hell. Hell is represented as a great mouth within which are human beings and devils. Winchester Psalter [Psalter of Henry of Blois; Psalter of St. Swithun]. Winchester [Priory of St. Swithun, or Hyde Abbey]; between 1121 and 1161.

Collection of the British Library.

#once I dreamed I was a codicologist

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Reblog if you ship Harrell/Brallier

#geology #earth science #sherb's field notes

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And taking a long fucking time

Is my homework the Alleghenian orogeny. Because it's transpressing

#studia felicitatis

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I found a book, Bernhard Edmaier’s ‘Patterns of the Earth’, which links in closely with my ideas. the up-close picture of my eye was something i examined for quite awhile, and found myself seeing other things in the little cracks and patterns of my skin&eye. These patterns of the earth, rich with a sense of movement and ‘flowing’, remind me greatly of the swerving and overlapping lines which can be seen in the miniscule details of my eyeball, skin, lashes etc.

#cmon sherb think up rock pun

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just saw julius caesar and the only thing i keep thinking about is how at least brutus had the guts to stab caesar from the front

#Прогноз: что я---тот совершенный вид---Скажу #:) #rhymes with thaumaturge

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I've got a week until the assignment is due but I still feel helpless & hopeless about it. The very Google Earth shuns my prescence.

Is my homework the Alleghenian orogeny. Because it's transpressing

#studia felicitatis

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In the London Docks. Engraving: Gustave Doré. From: "London - A Pilgrimage", text by W. B. Jerrold, engraved C. Maurant, 1872.

#not being on boats

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Is my homework the Alleghenian orogeny. Because it's transpressing

#sherb's field notes #studia felicitatis

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has anybody seen my pet piece of paper. his name is walter he is very fragile but very adventurous. i should never have left the window open in my tenth story apartment

#my stratigraphic column #where did all those rocks go!!!? #sherb's field notes

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Ship's Cat Chiclet - the Mascot of the Mary A. Whalen (1938) a retired oil tanker, Brooklyn, New York

#not being on boats

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making up my own symbology for "silty shale." It's morse code now sorry prof. skolithos

#sherb's field notes #studia felicitatis

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we are the universe experiencing itself

#then felt i like some watcher of the skies

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Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns

#who knows what we would have thought/in his place at his age

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#then felt i like some watcher of the skies