Karlgeorg Hoefer designed Beneta in 1991, inspired by the Littera beneventana, the script of the Benedictine scribes from the 10th to the 12th century. During this time, scribes began to use wider pens and set them at a 45 degree angle to the paper, which caused their scripts to have radical stroke contrasts. This script was mainly used for books and certificates but disappeared by the end of the 13th century. Beneta revives the characteristics of this historic script, changing a line of text into an almost ornamental space. Beneta should be used in middle to larger point sizes for shorter texts and headlines.
Beneta Borders was designed by Karlgeorg Hoefer and consists of a collection of ornaments.
The tradition of framing a page with ornaments goes back to the Middle Ages, when scribes wrote all texts by hand and often illuminated them with ornaments and borders. This practice gained in popularity in the 19th century and again in the 1940s, when advertisements for hair stylists, restaurants, dance halls, etc. were not complete without borders. Printers and designers can use Beneta Borders to make texts, especially advertisements, more eye-catching or unique and mix especially well with the currently popular 'revival faces', such as Electra, for example.Here is a link to the Klingspor-Museum.
