Karlgeorg Hoefer (6 February 1914 – 8 October 2000) was a
German
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calligrapher
Calligraphy (from el, link=y, καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a pen, ink brush, or other writing instrument. Contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined as "t ...
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), a ...
.
Hoefer was born in Schlesisch-Drehnow (now
Drzonów) in
Silesia
Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Silesia, Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. S ...
. He taught
typography
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 ...
at the
Hochschule 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 the
Schreibwerkstatt-Klingspor Offenbach and supported the
Klingspor Museum
The Klingspor-Museum is a museum in Offenbach, Germany, specializing in the art of modern book production, typography and type. It includes a collection of fine art books from Karl Klingspor, one of the owners of Klingspor Type Foundry in Of ...
in Offenbach am Main.
He designed fonts for
Linotype,
Klingspor, and
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 '' Erbar ...
, including the Permanent family and
Permanent Headline.
Today his most commonly seen font is the
FE-Schrift
The or ('forgery-impeding typeface') is a sans serif typeface introduced for use on licence plates. Its monospaced letters and numbers are slightly disproportionate to prevent easy modification and to improve machine readability. It has be ...
, the standard font for German
number plates.
He died in Offenbach in 2000.
External links
The original Karlgeorg Hoefer SiteSchreibwerkstatt-Klingspor Offenbach
1914 births
2000 deaths
People from the Province of Silesia
German typographers and type designers
German calligraphers
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