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Gottfried Pott

Calligrapher, born in 1939. He studied graphic design at the Werkkunstschule in Wiesbaden under F. Poppl. Since 1988, he is professor of calligraphy at the University for Applied Science and Art at Hildesheim/Holzminden, Germany. Bio. Well-known for the highly decorative bastarda typeface Duc de Berry (1991, Adobe, and later also at Linotype), for Karolina (1990, Linotype, in the style of the Carolingian Minuskel), for Arioso (1990, Linotype) and for Ruling Script (1992, Linotype, a calligraphic script). The Duc de Berry font was aped in Casual Tudor Script (SSi), Agincourt (Swfte) and Talleyrand (Scriptorium). In 2010, he made the sketchy brush face Potpourri (Linotype).

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