Antiqua–Fraktur dispute

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• card_zero 1 hour ago
  This led me to look up the origins of Fraktur, that typeface having been commissioned by Maximilian I for this extraordinary thing:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumphal_Arch_(woodcut)

  Instead of having a monumental triumphal arch built, he got Dürer to print a monumental poster of a triumphal arch, and had copies of it stuck up in all the public places.

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  • vintermann 13 minutes ago
    A pioneer in virtual reality technology, that Maximilian.
  • jdnier 55 minutes ago
    Seriously, wow.