Kuenstler Script is a formal

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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

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. 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. . *Fiedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. ''Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History.'' Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. . *Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. ''The Encyclopedia of Type Faces.'' Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. . *Macmillan, Neil. ''An A–Z of Type Designers.'' Yale University Press: 2006. . Stempel typefaces Formal script typefaces Letterpress typefaces Photocomposition typefaces Digital typefaces Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1902 {{typography-stub