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Hans Bohn (December 23, 1891 - May 10, 1980) was a German graphic artist and typographer. Events 962 - Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city Year 1891 ( MDCCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1291 - Scottish Nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, Type design, and modifying type Glyphs Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety He developed the fonts Orplid, Mondial, Allegro, and the heavier weight of Kuenstler Script. Allegro is a display Typeface that was designed by Hans Bohn in 1936 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

He began his career at the Ullstein Verlag in Berlin in 1914. From 1919 to 1930, he worked at Gebr. Klingspor. Gebr Klingspor was a German hotmetal Type foundry established in 1906 out of the Rudhard'sche Giesserei in Offenbach am Main. Afterwards he was a freelance graphic designer. He produced fonts and graphic arts for the Ludwig & Mayer foundry, a major German foundry, in the 1930s. In the 1950s, he produced the Kuenstler font for the D Stempel AG foundry.

External links

Kuenstler Font at Adobe: [1]


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