page_title: Schwabacher
section_title: Samples
hierarchical_section_title: Schwabacher / Samples
caption_attribution_description: English: Fraktur Typeface sample: "Alte Schwabacher" The text is "Beispiel Alte Schwabacher: Victor jagt zwölf Boxkämpfer quer über den Sylter Deich", which translates to "Example Old Schwabacher: Victor chases twelve boxers across the dyke of Sylt" (Sylt is a German island).
context_page_description: The German word Schwabacher refers to a specific style of blackletter typefaces which evolved from Gothic Textualis under the influence of Humanist type design in Italy during the 15th century. Schwabacher typesetting was the most common typeface in Germany, until it was replaced by Fraktur from the mid 16th century onwards.
context_section_description: The German sentence in the figures reads: "Beispiel Alte Schwabacher [Example of Old Schwabacher]: Victor jagt zwölf Boxkämpfer quer über den Sylter Deich". This is a nonsense sentence meaning "Victor chases twelve boxers across the dike of Sylt", but contains all 26 letters of the alphabet plus the German umlauts and is thus an example of a pangram.
caption: Alte Schwabacher
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