Font Design » Uncategorized http://www.glyphwerks.com/blog Articles and information about fonts, font design and font editing Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:19:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Alte Schwabacher – Free Font of the Month http://www.glyphwerks.com/blog/109/alte-schwabacher-free-font-of-the-month/ http://www.glyphwerks.com/blog/109/alte-schwabacher-free-font-of-the-month/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 19:11:45 +0000 admin http://www.glyphwerks.com/blog/?p=109 Alte Schwabacher FontThis month’s free font from Softmaker.de is Alte Schwabacher. This is one of the German black letter font standards. It is available this month  from the url: http://www.freefont.de/us/index.htm. Another popular historical German black letter font is Fraktur.

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The Moab font design is in the manner of Egyptienne.

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