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Hildegard Korger

Calligrapher (b. 1935, Reichenberg) and professor of calligraphy and writing at HGB Leipzig. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. Hildegard Korger was a teacher and professor at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig since 1968. Her calligraphic typeface Daphna, aka Typo-Skript, was published by Typoart in 1965. See also here. Picture. Author of Handbook of Typer and Lettering (1992, Design Press), a translation of the sixth edition of Schrift und Schreiben (Fachbuchverlag GmnH Keipzig, 1986)

Digital revivals: Ingo Preuss revived Daphne as Daphne (2004). ARTypes revived it as Typoskript AR in 2010. And Ralph M. Unger created his own revival, Typoskript Pro (2010). Another calligraphic hand was turned into a typeface by Ingo Preuss, who called it Korger Hand (2004). Other creations include Kis Antiqua. Klingspor link.

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