Figure 77
Cursive and Schwabacher used by Froschauer, Zurich
From Druckschriften des XV bis XVIII Jahrhunderts (facsimile), Ein kunstrych Buoch von allerley Antiquiteten (scan)
1567
There were many kinds of schwabacher type. We find a form of schwabacher used in 1509 by Johann Schoeffer at Mainz in his Reformacion der Stat Franckenfort. The paragraph in a cursive type imitated the German handwriting of that period—a fussy, restless kind of character, which is distracting to the eye and has somewhat the appearance of ravelled carpet-threads