# How Did Medieval French Handwriting Become “The Nazi Font?”  ## Metadata - Author: [[weird medieval guys]] - Full Title: How Did Medieval French Handwriting Become “The Nazi Font?” - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: Medieval blackletter handwriting, linked to German culture, was once called "Gothic letters" and used by the Nazis. In 1941, Hitler banned these fonts, saying they were outdated and had Jewish origins. After World War II, Germany stopped using blackletter in printing and switched to Latin-based scripts. - URL: https://weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/how-did-medieval-french-handwriting?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=62t39&triedRedirect=true ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > Both styles of text share a common ancestor in the form of Carolingian minuscule, a style of handwriting that developed in the late 8th century under an illiterate emperor named Carl. Today, Carl is remembered as a shrewd military leader, uniter of Europe, and first of a thousand-year line of Holy Roman Emperors. His popular legacy as “Carl the Great”—more often *Charlemagne* in the Anglosphere—is rarely attributed to his involvement in handwriting standardisation, despite the fact that the very letters you’re reading now wouldn’t exist without him. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kghbr6z2eyjy0zftmmnnhay9))