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Deutschkurrent

The ‘Deutsche Kurrentschrift’ is an old form of German language handwriting. Until the middle of the 20th century it was the established script for daily writing in German-speaking countries. One could call it the handwritten counterpart of Fraktur. Kant, Goethe, Schiller, Mozart, Beethoven, Nietzsche, Freud, even Einstein; they all used it for their writings. Georg Saldens digital Deutschkurrent is based on his own handwriting. It is comparatively easy to read, because it avoids all superfluousness and decoration.

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€ 60.00

Deutschkurrent fonts are available in OpenType Basic (no features) and OpenType Expert (features included). OpenType features provide advanced typographic performance and can be accessed by almost all professional layout software.

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Alternate Latin Characters
Alternate latin forms of the characters b, c, e, o, r, s, u, x can be applied via Stylistic Set 01 (InDesign) or Stylistic Alternates (QuarkXpress, Illustator, Photoshop).

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Long s and round s
The lowercase letter ‘s’ has two different forms depending on its context. The long ‘s’ appears at the begining of a syllable, the round ‘s’ at the end of a syllable. There are certain rules for ‘sp’, ‘st’ and ‘sch’. For German words the font Deutschkurrent Expert chooses the right form of ‘s’ automatically by using the OpenType feature Contextual Alternates. You can also type the different ‘s’ by hand on your keyboard: use the numbersign to type the round ‘s’. Use the asterisk to type the long s.

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Ligatures
Ligatures are designed to improve the kerning and readability of certain letter pairs. For example, when this feature is activated, typing ‘f’ and ‘i’ will automatically produce the ‘fi’ ligature.

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Ordinals
This feature replaces default alphabetic glyphs with the corresponding ordinal forms.

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Arbitrary Fractions
All fonts already include a number of pre-designed diagonal fractions. The fraction feature allows you to create other fractions quickly and easily.

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Superscript / superiors
Replaces all figures with their superior alternates, which can be used for footnotes, formulas, etc.

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Subscript / inferiors
Replaces all figures with their inferior alternates, used primarily for mathematical or chemical notation.