Hans Bohn (December 23, 1891 – May 10, 1980) was a German graphic artist and

typographer Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing ( leading), an ...

. He developed the fonts Orplid, Mondial, Allegro, and the heavier weight of

Kuenstler Script 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 "handwriti ...

. After training at the Technische Lehranstalt in Offenbach, he began his professional career at the Ullstein Verlag in Berlin in 1914. From 1919 to 1930, he worked at the Klingspor Foundry. Afterwards he was a freelance graphic designer. He produced fonts and graphic arts for

Ludwig & Mayer Ludwig & Mayer was a German type foundry in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Many important designers worked for the Ludwig and Mayer type foundry, including Heinrich Jost, Karlgeorg Hoefer, Helmut Matheis, and most notably Jakob Erbar, whose '' Erba ...

, a major German foundry, in the 1930s. In the 1950s, he produced the Kuenstler font for the Stempel foundry .

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Kuenstler Font at Adobe

1891 births 1980 deaths German typographers and type designers German graphic designers {{typ-stub

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