This 1538 Schwabacher was designed inspired from this who was used by Georg Rhan in Wittemberg (Germany) to print "Des Babsts Hercules [...]", a German pamphlet against roman catholicism written by Johannes Kymeus.The original font have a relatively complete set of characters including "long s", naturelly but also the special german types like k, fl or ä,ö, ü.... A few lacks were remedy, and accented letters were added.
This font supports as easily enlargement than small size, remaining clear and easy to read from 8 or 9 points. It is especially designed for printed works.