Gudrun Zapf von Hesse

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Gudrun Zapf von Hesse (b. 1918) is a typographer, calligrapher and book-binder. She is the 1991 winner of the Fredrick W. Goudy Award. She designed several fonts for the type foundry D. Stempel AG, such as Diotima (1955). She served a book-binding apprenticeship with Otto Dorfner.

Zapf von Hesse is married to Hermann Zapf.

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Gudrun Zapf von Hesse: Bindings, Handwritten Books, Typefaces, Examples of Lettering and Drawings, forward by Hans A. Halbey. Mark Batty, Publisher, West New York NJ, 2002.

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