Karlgeorg Hoefer
Male, Deceased Person
1914 – 2000
Who was Karlgeorg Hoefer?
Karlgeorg Hoefer was a German calligrapher and typographer.
Hoefer was born in Schlesisch-Drehnow in Silesia. He taught typography at the Hochschule für Gestaltung 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 in Offenbach am Main.
He designed fonts for Linotype, Klingspor, and Ludwig & Mayer.
Today his most commonly seen font is the FE-Schrift, the standard font for German number plates.
He died in Offenbach in 2000.
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