Karlgeorg Hoefer was born on February 6th, 1914 in Schlesisch-Drehnow. Following schooling in Schlesien and Hamburg, he served a four-year typesetting apprenticeship from 1930-1934 in Hamburg. After two years of military service, he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Offenbach am Main and then worked in Potsdam. From 1939 until 1945 he was in active military service and was also a prisoner of the Russians.
His activities as a calligrapher began after his [...]
Prof. Karlgeorg Hoefer was one one the most influential calligraphers of the 20th Century. Aside from leading numerous workshops inside the United States, as well as abroad, he taught for decades at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main (Germany). One of his most representative typefaces is Salto, which he developed in 1952 for the Klingspor foundry in Offenbach.
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Beneta™
Karlgeorg Hoefer designed Beneta in 1991, inspired by the Littera beneventana, the [...]
Font Designer: Karlgeorg Hoefer, 1992
Designed by internationally renowned calligrapher and type designer KarlGeorg Hoefer, this brush stroke font is featured in the first part of our highly sucessful Calligraphy for Print series.
Calligraphy for Print gives the modern computer user the possibility to imitate handwriting and calligraphy with his keyboard in a very attractive manner.
In many countries calligraphic designs are employed on posters, in magazines or advertisings to [...]
Font Designer: Karlgeorg Hoefer, 1992
Designed by internationally renowned calligrapher and type designer KarlGeorg Hoefer, this brush stroke font is featured in the first part of our highly sucessful Calligraphy for Print series.
Calligraphy for Print gives the modern computer user the possibility to imitate handwriting and calligraphy with his keyboard in a very attractive manner.
In many countries calligraphic designs are employed on posters, in magazines or advertisings to [...]
The master German calligrapher Karlgeorg Hoefer created the Sho typeface for Linotype's Calligraphy for Print collection. Sho is very different from most calligraphic typefaces, in that it creates its own new style, rather than mimicking an older one. Hoefer's striking letters have generous forms. They were created with a wide lettering brush. This tool influenced the strong, expressive quality of the strokes. The design was originally going to be named after the comedian Charlie Chaplin, because when examined carefully, the lower case c looks like a sleeping man in a boat. This idea had to be discarded due to copyright issues, and the typeface was finally given the name Sho to signify its almost Japanese style.
Sho distinguishes itself formally from other faces via the extreme contrast between its strokes. A unique characteristic of the font is the way it uses simple round forms in many of its letters, lending text set in Sho a peppy and playful feeling.
Sho is a trademark of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
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XSF-Fonts are OpenType or TrueType fonts with an excellent appearance on screen at small sizes or low resolutions – especially engineered and optimized for exceptionally readable typefaces on computer screens using Microsoft® Windows operating systems.
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