Hermann Zapf (German:[tsapf]; 8 November 1918 – 4 June 2015) was a German type designer and calligrapher who lived in Darmstadt, Germany. He was married to the calligrapher and typeface designer Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse. Typefaces he designed include Palatino, Optima, and Zapfino. He is considered one of the greatest type designers of all time.[1]
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HermannZapf (German: [tsapf]; 8 November 1918 – 4 June 2015) was a German type designer and calligrapher who lived in Darmstadt, Germany. He was married...
ITC Zapf Dingbats is one of the more common dingbat typefaces. It was designed by the typographer HermannZapf in 1978 and licensed by International Typeface...
Optima is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by HermannZapf and released by the D. Stempel AG foundry, Frankfurt, West Germany in 1958. Though classified...
Palatino is the name of an old-style serif typeface designed by HermannZapf, initially released in 1949 by the Stempel foundry and later by other companies...
ITC Zapf Chancery is a family of script typefaces designed by the type designer HermannZapf and marketed by the International Typeface Corporation. It...
typeface designed for Linotype by typeface designer HermannZapf in 1998. It is based on an alphabet Zapf originally penned in 1944. As a font, it makes extensive...
German typographer and calligrapher, wife of HermannZapf Helmut Zapf (born 1956), German composer HermannZapf (1918–2015), German typeface designer, professor...
War II, and according to Zapf von Hesse it was "not a good place at all to start a new life". She met HermannZapf in 1948. Zapf was the art director for...
the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and designed and created by HermannZapf with the assistance of Donald Knuth and his Stanford graduate students...
(U+2700–U+27BF) (under the original block name "Zapf Dingbats", so named for type designer HermannZapf) was added to the Unicode Standard in October 1991...
Herbert Thannhaeuser, Martin Wilke, Rudolf Wolf, Victor Hammer, HermannZapf, and Gudrun Zapf von Hesse. With the introduction of Memphis in 1929, the foundry...
2012 (v4.0). A history and guide to typography, it has been praised by HermannZapf, who said "I wish to see this book become the Typographers' Bible." Jonathan...
1970s Hz-program, a typographic composition computer program created by HermannZapf. HZ University of Applied Sciences, a vocational university in Zeeland...
URW Grotesk is a large sans-serif typeface family designed by HermannZapf for URW in the mid-1980s. URW Grotesk is a sans-serif of mixed design, with...
calligraphic typeface designed by and named after renowned typeface designer HermannZapf for Linotype. Zapfino utilizes advanced typographic features of the Apple...
2015). Der Typograph HermannZapf: Eine Werkbiographie. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. pp. 170–3. ISBN 978-3-11-041505-6. HermannZapf: ein Arbeitsbericht...
by the metamorphosis of the alphabet. The serif typeface designed by HermannZapf and released in 1948 was named after Giambattista Palatino. Bolzoni 2011...
Chancery L Medium Italic font. The original, ITC Zapf Chancery, was designed in 1979 by HermannZapf. The TeX Gyre Cursor family of monospace serif fonts...
name Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 American Scribe AMS Euler Designer: HermannZapf, Donald Knuth Apple Chancery Designer: Kris Holmes Brush Script Designer:...
and others. The names are inscribed in Optima typeface, designed by HermannZapf. Information about rank, unit, or decorations is not provided on the...
Gentium Georgia GNU FreeFont Google logo Goudy Old Style / Goudy Granjon HermannZapf Hightower Text Hoefler Text IBM Plex Serif* Imprint ITC Benguiat Janson...
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