Hermann Zapf (German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈtsapf]; 8 November 1918 – 4 June 2015) was a German type designer and calligrapher who lived in Darmstadt, Germany. He...
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Palatino (category Typefaces designed by Hermann Zapf)
Palatino is an old-style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf, initially released in 1949 by the Stempel foundry and later by other companies, most...
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German typographer and calligrapher, wife of Hermann Zapf Helmut Zapf (born 1956), German composer Hermann Zapf (1918–2015), German typeface designer, professor...
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ITC Zapf Dingbats is one of the more common dingbat typefaces. It was designed by the typographer Hermann Zapf in 1978 and licensed by International Typeface...
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typographic composition computer program, created by German typeface designer Hermann Zapf. The goal of this program was: "To produce the perfect grey type area...
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Optima (category Typefaces designed by Hermann Zapf)
Optima is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf and released by the D. Stempel AG foundry, Frankfurt, West Germany in 1958. Though classified...
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War II, and according to Zapf von Hesse it was "not a good place at all to start a new life". She met Hermann Zapf in 1948. Zapf was the art director for...
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Zapfino (category Typefaces designed by Hermann Zapf)
typeface designed for Linotype by typeface designer Hermann Zapf in 1998. It is based on an alphabet Zapf originally penned in 1944. As a font, it makes extensive...
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ITC Zapf Chancery is a family of script typefaces designed by the German type designer Hermann Zapf and marketed by the International Typeface Corporation...
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AMS Euler (category Typefaces designed by Hermann Zapf)
the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and designed and created by Hermann Zapf with the assistance of Donald Knuth and his Stanford graduate students...
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2012 (v4.0). A history and guide to typography, it has been praised by Hermann Zapf, who said "I wish to see this book become the Typographers' Bible." Jonathan...
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(U+2700–U+27BF) (under the original block name "Zapf Dingbats", so named for type designer Hermann Zapf) was added to the Unicode Standard in October 1991...
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URW Grotesk (category Typefaces designed by Hermann Zapf)
URW Grotesk is a large sans-serif typeface family designed by Hermann Zapf for URW in the mid-1980s. URW Grotesk is a sans-serif of mixed design, with...
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although Zapf-von Hesse had been working on the design for some years by this point. The design was her first full typeface. Her husband, Hermann Zapf, used...
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Herbert Thannhaeuser, Martin Wilke, Rudolf Wolf, Victor Hammer, Hermann Zapf, and Gudrun Zapf von Hesse. With the introduction of Memphis in 1929, the foundry...
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(1522–1603), German humanist and mathematician Hermann Winterhalter (1808–1891), German painter Hermann Zapf (1918–2015), German typeface designer Albert...
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Antiqua (1939). Renner also created the typeface Futura. Hermann Zapf (1918–2015), created Zapf Renaissance Antiqua (1984–87). Created many other fonts...
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2015). Der Typograph Hermann Zapf: Eine Werkbiographie. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. pp. 170–3. ISBN 978-3-11-041505-6. Hermann Zapf: ein Arbeitsbericht...
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Chancery L Medium Italic font. The original, ITC Zapf Chancery, was designed in 1979 by Hermann Zapf. The TeX Gyre Cursor family of monospace serif fonts...
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Berthold Wolpe (Albertus) Gudrun Zapf von Hesse (Diotima, Alcuin) Hermann Zapf (Palatino, Optima, Zapf Chancery, Zapf Dingbats, Zapfino) Henri Friedlaender...
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Open Sans Designer: Steve Matteson Class: Humanist Optima Designer: Hermann Zapf Class: Humanist Overpass Designer: Delve Witherington Class: Mixed Oxygen...
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Gentium Georgia GNU FreeFont Google logo Goudy Old Style / Goudy Granjon Hermann Zapf Hightower Text Hoefler Text IBM Plex Serif* Imprint ITC Benguiat Janson...
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calligraphic typeface designed by and named after renowned typeface designer Hermann Zapf for Linotype. Zapfino utilizes advanced typographic features of the Apple...
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1970s Hz-program, a typographic composition computer program created by Hermann Zapf. HZ University of Applied Sciences, a vocational university in Zeeland...
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practitioners in the field of typography, including previous recipients Hermann Zapf, Ed Benguiat, and Kris Holmes. The Cary Collection also houses the Albion...
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by the metamorphosis of the alphabet. The serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf and released in 1948 was named after Giambattista Palatino. Bolzoni 2011...
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style Albertus Designer: Berthold Wolpe Class: Glyphic Aldus Designer: Hermann Zapf Class: Old style Alexandria Designer: Hank Gillette Class: Slab serif...
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Nikolais schools. She later studied calligraphy and typeface design with Hermann Zapf at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She received a B.A. from Harvard...
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Monotype Corsiva Designer: Tricia Saunders Snell Roundhand Designer: Matthew Carter Zapf Chancery Designer: Hermann Zapf Zapfino Designer: Hermann Zapf...
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in calligraphic art, contributed by a group of calligraphers led by Hermann Zapf. Knuth was invited to give a set of lectures at MIT on the views on religion...
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