As one of their cultural initiatives, they encourage a return to the Teutonic script of their heritage, which had begun to be replaced by the simpler, more legible, roman faces. Fraktur becomes the government's semi-official typeface, and an enduring symbol of Nazism. Nazis ban the use of gothic typefaces in Germany, declaring that they are Judenlettern, or Jewish type. When the U.S. enters WWII, Greenberg is the first major-leaguer to enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces. For three seasons of his baseball prime, he trades his Tiger D for an Army Air Corps insignia.
Metal type is replaced by, first phototypesetters, and then digital typefaces.
Printers and publications, once limited in their choice of type styles and sizes, are now free to use a much wider variety for both legibility at various sizes, and for special effects. The Texas Legislature withdraws statewide regulation of exotic animals, including tigers and lions. The population of the big cats in Texas explodes, leading to a story in this issue. Searching for a font with religious connotations to use in the headlines for this week's cover story on Christian hip-hop in Round Rock, Chronicle art director Taylor Holland settles on Cloister Black from the Bitstream foundry. Then, noting that the other lead story in the issue has to do with tigers, and being a sports fan, he decides to extend the usage of Cloister to the exotic cats story, and thence to the other cover type as well.