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Manfred Klein: Blackletter, Fraktur, Rotunda [Manfred Klein]

Manfred's fascination with blackletter and its German roots is apparent from the tens of typefaces he designed that are either revivals of historic typefaces or playful and not so playful extensions. Here we go:

• ArthritishSpringtime
• BarlosRandom, BarlosRandomRings
• BarlosiusEdged (2007)
• Bastarda-K, BastardaButtonsBeta, BastardaMajuskel1300, BastardusSans
• BauernFraktur (2004, after the 1911 original by Bauersche)
• BayreuthFraktur, Bayreuther-BlaXXL (2005, a variation of Schneidler's Bayreuth)
• BigBroken, BigBrokenTwo
• BigElla
• Brahms-Gotisch (2005, with Petra Heidorn: a revival of Heinz Beck's 1937 typeface at Genzsch&Heyse)
• BrokenAlphabetTradition, BrokenBrainsFrax, BrokenCapsJumperB, BrokenHand-Bold, BrokenHand, BrokenHandLight, BrokenRoman-Bold, BrokenSansCaps, BrokenSansCapsJumper, BrokenWoodtypes, BrokentTraditionRound
• BruchRund
• BruchschriftMK
• Burte-Fraktur
• Burtine (2003: handwritten freestyle version of Burte Fraktur, 1928), Burte-Fraktur, Burtinomatic, Burtinomatic-DemiBold
• Burtinomatic-DemiBold, Burtinomatic
• CancellerescA
• CantaraGotica
• Cantzley Inverse Caps (2007), CantzleyAD1600 (2005)
• CaslonishFraxx
• ClaudiusImperator
• Clausewitz-Fraktur (2005). Designed in memory of Klaus Burkhardt.
• CaslonishFraxx
• ClaudiusImperator
• CowboyCaxton
• Cuxhaven Initials Round (2006), CuxhavenFraktur (2006), CuxhavenInitials (2006), CuxhavenTimes (2002). All named in honor of Petra Heidorn, who is from Cuxhaven.
• DecadentaFrax (2007)
• DirtyThinkwitz (2003). In honor of his good friend Klaus Burkhardt.
• DizzyBrokenWritten
• DolbyFraxCaps (2005)
• DornspitzGrotesk
• DoubleBrokenTextura
• Druckschrift-Initialen
• DrunkenSailor (2006)
• DuerersMinuskeln
• ElectrUnciale (2005)
• ElephantaBlack (2006)
• FatFreeFrax
• FlyingHollander (2005)
• FracturiaSketched, FracturiaSketchedCaps
• FraktKonstruct, FraktSketch, FraktSketchFS, FraktalConPablos, FrakturInRings (2007), FrakturInitials07 (2007), FrakturNitials (2006), FrakturaFonteria, FrakturaFonteriaSlim (2006)
• FrakturCondensedHeadline, FrakturCondensedHeadlineExtra
• FraxBoxes, FraxBricKs, FraxBrix, FraxHandwritten-RoundCaps, FraxHandwritten, FraxHandwrittenXtrem-Medium, FraxInCage, FraxInCageLeftOblique, FraxInCageRightOblique, FraxInitials, FraxMouseSketches, FraxxSketchQuill
• FrungturaFS
• GGothiqueMK
• GermanFatman (2006)
• GingkoFraktur (2006)
• GoldenSwing
• GotenborgFraktur (2007)
• GothicLetters (2007)
• Gotic Caps (2006), GoticaBastard, GotischeMajuskel, GothicMajuscles
• GotikaButtons (2005, after Imre Reiner's Gotika from 1933)
• GutenbergsGhostypes, GutenbergsTraces
• HamletOrNot, HamletTobeornot
• HansFraktur
• HansSachsCaps (2007)
• HansSchoenspergerRandomish
• HappyFrax (2006)
• Haunted-Normal, HauntedBricks
• Heimat
• Holland Gotisch (with Petra Heidorn; a revival of Nederduits by Johann Michael Fleischmann, ca. 1750)
• ImresFraktur, ImresFraxCaps (2007)
• Incunitials
• IronFraktur
• JessicaPlus
• JoeCaxton
• JohannesBricks, JohannesButtons-02, JohannesGDiamonds, JohannesGLastTraces (2007), JohannesTraces
• Jugendstil (2006)
• KaiserRotbartCaps (2007)
• KL1CiviliteEdges
• Kl1RheumaticFraktur
• KleinSchwabach (2005)
• KleinsBrokenGotik (2006)
• KlungerCaps (2006)
• Leibniz-Regular
• LombardPlattfuss, Lombardic
• LookBrokenTypes
• LuFraktorsoBroad
• LudwigHohlwein (2006)
• LufrakturBricks (2006)
• LutherDuemille, LutherMousedrawn-Bold, LutherMousedrawn
• MKBritishWriting
• MK Broken Types (2006)
• MKFraxConstr (2007)
• MKImresTshirtsA
• MKalligFrax, MKalligFrax-MediumItalic
• MKancellerescaCaps (2005)
• MKantzley (2005), MKanzleiCaps-One (2006)
• MKapitalisRusticaMedium
• MKaslonTextura
• MoKsford, MoKsfordBold, MoKsfordDemiBold, MoKsfordExtraLight, MoKsfordLight
• MonAmourCaps (2006), MonAmourFraktur-Broken (2006), MonAmourFrakturRegular
• MonksWriting
• MorbusParcinsonFraxx
• MorscheKnochen
• MountFirtree
• MousefraKtur
• Münchner-Fraktur (2005). A revival of Renaissance Fraktur by Heinz König, 1885, Genzsch&Heyse.
• MyElectronicSchwabach
• NeuGothic-Bold
• Neudoerffer, NeudoerfferScribbleQuality. Both codex style typefaces are from 2003. Manfred writes that Neudoerffer is an unaltered version of the original Neudoerffer Initialen from 1660.
• OKsfordBadFat, OKsfordItalic
• OldTypographicSymphony-Regular, OldTypographicSymphony-Round
• PopFraxFrankfurt (2007), PopFraxFrankfurtCondensed (2007)
• PrinzEugen
• Potsdam (2005, a revival of a 1934 typeface by Robert Golpon)
• Prothesis-Black, Prothesis-Caribiqu, Prothesis-Caripix
• RandomFrax
• ReadableGothic
• RememberReinerFS
• RotundaEspagna
• Schaftstiefel Kaputt (2003)
• SchmaleGotischMK, SchmalfetteGotisch
• SchneidlerSchwabacher, SchneidlerSolitaires, SchneidlerSolitairesRound
• Schwabach, SchwabachDuemille, SchwabachScribbels, SchwabachScribbelsSecond
• ScribbledFrakturX-Heavy (2006)
• SketchedCassiusBroken
• SmallEdgedFrax (2006)
• Snoutlike (2003)
• SpaceWinningFrax (2007)
• TizonaDance
• TshirtsForFrax
• TypoasisBoldGothic (2003)
• VanDoesburgBrokenFS
• VeryBrokenFrax
• WaldarbeiterGotisch
• WeimarInline
• WeissGotischRandom
• Weissgotnitials (2005, based on Weiss's Lichte Initialen, 1935)
• WittewittMajuscles-Flourish, WittewittMajuscles-FlourishBricks
• WrittenFrax (2007)

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Manfred Klein: Blackletter, Fraktur, Rotunda
Manfred Klein ⦿ German type scene ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿ Lombardic types ⦿ De Stijl and type design ⦿ Bastarda / Bâtarde / Schwabacher ⦿ Rotunda / Rundgotisch ⦿ Textura ⦿ Uncial typefaces ⦿ Caslon ⦿ Codex-like fonts ⦿ Ornamental caps typefaces ⦿ Caxton ⦿