Hermann Zapf–the legendary German designer and calligrapher behind the Optima, Palatino, Zapfino, and Dingbat typefaces– died in his home in Darmstadt, Germany, last Friday at the age of 96.

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 ...

The first Zapf rarity that still has me on a goose chase is Feder und Stichel, or as it is called in English, Pen and Graver : this is the first ever showing of Zapf’s Palatino type in a book ...

It was indeed Kelly, Zapf’s long-time student whom I was now standing before, who had famously said, “What Michelangelo was to sculpture and Beethoven was to music, that’s what Hermann Zapf ...

Rochester Institute of Technology’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection opened a new exhibition to celebrate the 100 th birthdays of renowned German type designers and calligraphers Hermann Zapf and Gudrun ...

The great German type designer Hermann Zapf died at age 96, weeks before the 70th anniversary of the UN Charter—whose preamble he hand-lettered more than half a century ago.

In 1951 Hermann Zapf married Gudrun von Hesse, also a well-known calligrapher and type designer. She survives him; a son died in 2012. Hermann Zapf, born November 8 1918, died June 4 2015 ...

speed read Hermann Zapf, font legend who created Palatino and eponymous 'Dingbats,' is dead at 96 Newsletter sign up (Image credit: The Art of Hermann Zapf/YouTube) By Peter Weber, The Week US ...