The German word Schwabacher (pronounced ) refers to a specific blackletter typeface. The term derives from the town of Schwabach. Characteristics The small-letter g and the capital-letter H have particularly distinctive forms. History The Schwabacher was a blackletter typeface that evolved from textualis under the influence of Humanist type design in Italy. It was nearer to handwriting than the textualis style. In the 16th century, it was displaced by fraktur as the most-used German typeface fr… (More on Schwabacher)