Kuenstler Script
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| Category | Formal script |
|---|---|
| [[Type design#Profession|DesignerTemplate:Pluralize from text]] | Hans Bohn |
| Foundry | D Stempel AG |
| Date created | 1902 |
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. Template:ISBN.
- Fiedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. Template:ISBN.
- Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. Template:ISBN.
- Macmillan, Neil. An A–Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press: 2006. Template:ISBN.
