Gudrun Zapf von Hesse (born January 2, 1918) is a typographer, calligrapher and book-binder. She is the 1991 winner of the Frederic 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 typeface designer Hermann Zapf.
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Gudrun Zapf von Hesse: Bindings, Handwritten Books, Typefaces, Examples of Lettering and Drawings, foreword by Hans A. Halbey. Mark Batty Publisher, New York, NY 2002.