- Karlgeorg Hoefer
Karlgeorg Hoefer (
February 6 1914 –October 8 2000 ) was a Germancalligrapher andtypographer .Hoefer was born in Schlesisch-Drehnow (now Drzonów) in
Silesia . He taughttypography at theHochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach (until 1970 "Werkkunstschule Offenbach"). He held several calligraphy workshops for calligraphic societies in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Boston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Portland and Washington. In 1987 he founded theSchreibwerkstatt-Klingspor Offenbach and supported theKlingspor Museum in Offenbach am Main.He designed fonts for
Linotype ,Klingspor , andLudwig & Mayer .Today his most commonly seen font is the
FE-Schrift , the standard font for German number plates.He died in Offenbach in 2000.
External links
* [http://www.kghoefer.de/English/E_index.html The original Karlgeorg Hoefer Site]
* [http://www.schreibwerkstatt-klingspor.de Schreibwerkstatt-Klingspor Offenbach]* [http://www.linotype.com/7-435-7/karlgeorghoefer.html Hoefer's page at Linotype.com]
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