Her talents were recognized in 1991 when she was presented with RIT’s Goudy award. The Cary Graphic Arts Collection has the honor of being one of two formal depositories for the work of Hermann Zapf ...

Hermann Zapf, one of the undisputed titans in the world of calligraphy and typeface design and a longtime member of the Rochester Institute of Technology community, died June 4 at the age of 96 in ...

In his lifetime, German type designer Hermann Zapf created around 200 typefaces across the world’s languages, from Arabic to Cherokee. His sans-serif 1952 Optima was used to record the names on ...

Hermann Zapf, the German font designer who died Sunday, believed his famous Zapf Dingbats font should be used sparingly. Though Zapf Dingbats, which broke big when Apple integrated it into 1986 ...

Prolific typeface designer Hermann Zapf passed away earlier this month at the age of 96. The creator of approximately 200 fonts and typefaces, he is best known for his works Optima, Palatino ...

Palatino, an updated classical Roman design Zapf first dew by hand in 1948, was his "breakthrough font," says Bruce Weber in The New York Times ' obituary, published Wednesday.