Schwabacher
A broader, rounder blackletter that became the type of the German Reformation.
Schwabacher was used in Luther’s Bible and in countless pamphlets in the 16th century. It was gradually replaced by fraktur but lived on as an emphasis type. Examples are in the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz.
Materials: Types of lead, tin and antimony; paper
Manufacture: Punches were cut in steel, struck into copper matrices and the types cast in a hand mould.
The round, almost two-storey g and the closed o.
The letters are broader and softer than angular textura.