Sample of German kurrent handwriting (Kant: Answering_the_Question:_What_Is_Enlightenment? in German)
Kurrent is an old form of German handwriting based on late medieval cursive writing. It is known in full as Kurrentschrift or Alte Deutsche Schrift ("Old German script"). In American English, its name has been seen shortened to Schrift.[citation needed] Sütterlin is to tell apart. It's better-known font that looks a bit like schrift, although it was new development with serveral differences. It's much simpler and it was taught in schools until 1941.
External links
- German handwriting Schrift (German) Overview about the writing of Kurrent.
- The typeface used to set the example text above
- Another version, by Lars Erik Bryld, called Manu Gothica
- Yet another version, by Peter Wiegel
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