Breitkopf Fraktur

An excerpt from Immanuel Kant's What is Enlightenment? as a sample of the font Breitkopf Fraktur

Breitkopf Fraktur is a Blackletter font designed by typographer and German music publisher Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf (1719-1794).^[1] Breitkopf was the son of the publisher Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, founder of the publishing house Breitkopf & Härtel, a firm that continues to the present day.

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References

↑ "Breitkopf Fraktur-About this font family". Myfonts.com web site. Bitstream, Inc. Retrieved 2010-03-03.

German sources

O. Hase (1876), "Breitkopf und Härtel", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 3, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 296–303
Wolfgang Schmieder (1955), "Breitkopf, Johann Gottlob", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German), 2, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 578–579

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