Kuenstler Script
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{{Infobox font
| name = Kuenstler
| image = Kuenstler.svg
| style = Formal script
| creationdate = 1902
| creator = Hans Bohn
| foundry = D Stempel AG
}}
Kuenstler Script is a formal script typeface. The primary weight was designed in 1902 by the in-house studio at the D Stempel AG foundry. It was originally titled Künstlerschreibschrift, which translates from German to English as "handwriting of artists". The face is based on late nineteenth-century English copperplate scripts. Those faces in turn took inspiration from earlier eighteenth century writing masters George Bickham and George Shelley, both of whom worked in a writing style called round hand. In 1957, Hans Bohn added to the typeface family with Kuenstler Script Black, a heavy weight of the face.
References
- Blackwell, Lewis. 20th Century Type. Yale University Press: 2004. {{ISBN|0-300-10073-6}}.
- Fiedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. {{ISBN|1-57912-023-7}}.
- Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. {{ISBN|0-7137-1347-X}}.
- Macmillan, Neil. An A–Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press: 2006. {{ISBN|0-300-11151-7}}.
Category:Formal script typefaces
Category:Letterpress typefaces
Category:Photocomposition typefaces
Category:Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1902
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