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Fractur is more than a font difference as it has a few ligatures (e.g. tz) that are not found in the Roman alphabet as used in modern German (ß is the only one that made the transition). And these “ligatures” aren’t really true ligatures in the sense of, say, the “fi” ligature in some fonts; they are glyphs that are close to being fully fledged letters, as, say, ö, which is an accented (umlautened) letter in Germany is a fully-fledged letter in Swedish, or how W became a freestanding letter in English.