Schwabacher
(ˈʃvɑːbɑːxə(r))
[G., f. Schwabach, name of a town in central Bavaria.]
A German black-letter type-face, a simplified, lighter version of bastarda, used in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Also attrib.
| [1910 Encycl. Brit. VII. 723/2 For these scanty writings the German so-called ‘Schwabach’ characters were used.] 1922 D. B. Updike Printing Types i. iv. 62 The smaller type of the Indulgences, which is a rounder black-letter, has certain peculiarities later found in ‘schwabacher’ fonts. 1926 [see fraktur]. 1934 A. F. Johnson Type Designs i. 31 Schwabacher has the usual Bastarda characteristics, the closed, one-storeyed a, and pointed descenders to s and f; the tail of the g is open. 1969 [see fraktur]. 1972 P. Gaskell New Introd. Bibliogr. 18 The Schwabacher group..tended towards the rotundas. |