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Blackletter: Typophile choices

Typophiles list their favorite blackletter typefaces:

• Georg Trump: Fette Trump Deutsch (there exists a free version by Dieter Steffmann).
• Emil Rudolf Weiss: Weiss Rundgotisch (1937)
• Canada Type: Blackhaus (2005), a typeface based on Kursachsen Auszeichnung, which was designed in 1937 by Peterpaul Weiss for the Schriftguss.
• Michael Harvey and Andy Benedek: Fine Gothic.
• House Industries: Blaktur.
• Underware: Fakir.
• Letterror: Brokenscript.
• Kombinat: Ode (2010, Martin Wenzel).
• Fette Fraktur.
• Old English.
• Wilhelm Klingsporschrift.
• Ryoichi Tsunekawa: Deluta (2007).
• Gabriel Martinez Meave: Darka.
• J. Mach Wust: UnifrakturMaguntia (2010: based on Peter Wiegel's font Berthold Mainzer Fraktur which is in turn based on a 1901 typeface by Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt) and UnifrakturCook (2010: based on Peter Wiegel's font Koch fette deutsche Schrift which is in turn based on a 1910 typeface by Rudolf Koch). Latest update of Unifraktur in 2017. Dedicated page.
• Brian Sooy: Greenbriar. [I disagree. This is a hexagonal and not a blackletter typeface family.]

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