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3 unusual facts about Hermann Zapf


Metafont

While well-known font designers, such as Hermann Zapf, have collaborated with Knuth to create new fonts using Metafont, the system has not been widely adopted by professional type designers.

Pan-Nigerian alphabet

The final version and reference typeface were developed by the typographer Hermann Zapf in 1985.

Zapf

Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer, professor, calligrapher, typographer and husband of Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse


Chancery hand

Zapfino, a digital typeface that simulates an italic chancery hand, designed by Hermann Zapf.

Greek Font Society

Includes papers on history, typography, and character coding by Hermann Zapf, Matthew Carter, Nicolas Barker, John A. Lane, Kyle McCarter, Jerôme Peignot, Pierre MacKay, Silvio Levy, et al.

Society of Typographic Aficionados

Soon after SOTA was incorporated as a non-profit 501(c)(3) and installed a formal board of directors including such typographic luminaries as Hermann Zapf, Matthew Carter, and Allan Haley.


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