Comment by atoav

I learned that style of writing in school (German: Normschrift). I think this is where the origins of the font lie, but having read the article I don't see how the author is wrong here.

This is just a thing they failed to emphasize — maybe — considering the credentials, because it was blaringly obvious to them.

This feels more like a detrctive story about figuring out the origins of one concrete manifestation of a font and not a text about where that family of fonts comes from.