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Ehrenurkunde Bundesjugendspiele (1960)

Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Dec 7th, 2019. Artwork published in .
Ehrenurkunde Bundesjugendspiele (1960)
Source: de.wikipedia.org Manfred Kopka. License: CC BY-SA.

From Wikipedia:

The Bundesjugendspiele (“Federal Youth Games”) are an annual sports event that takes place at German schools and German international schools. They are obligatory for all students. […] The performances achieved are rated with points. If the participant achieves a specific minimum score, they are given a simple certificate. Above a certain higher score they receive an ‘honorary certificate’, which bear the (printed) signature of the Federal President.

The honorary certificate (Ehrenurkunde) as used in the 1960s features a special combination of typefaces: While the text is set in Diotima-Kursiv by Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse, the heading is in Saphir by her husband Hermann.

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  • Diotima

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