Dfr in blackletter fonts
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Maxim Zhukov
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What did the ‘Dfr’ bit stand for in the names of digital blackletter fonts? Was that a reference to a special font layout? Please remind me. Thanks in advance, Maxim
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Deutsche Fraktur, had a couple of special ligatures for ch and ck I think.1
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What Thomas said – sometimes also tz and others. Typically the main difference was having the long s (ſ) as default, and the round s under some unrelated but easily typeable codepoint, like #.
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