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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • PARTY/HERMANN ZAPF; Written on Wall (And in Windows)". New York Times. http://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/pdfs/ps3fonts.pdf [bare URL PDF] "ITC Zapf Chancery"...
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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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    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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    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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  • (1522–1603), German humanist and mathematician Hermann Winterhalter (1808–1891), German painter Hermann Zapf (1918–2015), German typeface designer Albert...
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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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    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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    (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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • activist (d. 2006) 1918 – Kazuo Sakamaki, Japanese soldier (d. 1999) 1918 – Hermann Zapf, German typographer and calligrapher (d. 2015) 1919 – James S. Ackerman...
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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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    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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  • Open Sans Designer: Steve Matteson Class: Humanist Optima Designer: Hermann Zapf Class: Humanist Overpass Designer: Delve Witherington Class: Mixed Oxygen...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    script typefaces with swashes are common, and include Zapf Chancery and Zapfino, both by Hermann Zapf. Some historical revivals add optional swashes to designs...
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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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    Preamble of the charter of The United Nations: calligraphic manuscript by Hermann Zapf. Frankfurt am Main, 1960. Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Politics...
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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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  • contains such famous trademarked typefaces as Palatino and Optima by Hermann Zapf; Frutiger, Avenir and Univers by Adrian Frutiger; and Helvetica by Max...
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  • name Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 American Scribe AMS Euler Designer: Hermann Zapf, Donald Knuth Apple Chancery Designer: Kris Holmes Brush Script Designer:...
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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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