Everyone who’s used a word processor knows there are about a million different fonts to ch
Everyone who’s used a word processor knows there are about a million different fonts to choose from. Some fonts–or typefaces–are related to the modern Roman alphabet we use today, but are barely recognizable as being in the same family. The Sütterlinschrift (top), developed in Prussia during the early 1910s and used until it was banished by the Nazi party in the 40s, is a sibling to the alphabet you’re reading now, however difficult it appears to read. Also related to the Roman alphabet is the family of Cyrillic scripts (bottom), though it’s a child of Greek rather than Latin; if Sütterlin is Roman type’s sister, then Cyrillic is its second cousin. Some of the Cyrillic alphabets’ letters, like А and Е, are identical to their Roman equivalents, but some like Д (D) and Л (L) are more like their Greek parents. Image credit to Flickr and We Love Typography. -- source link
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