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.

There are one thousand copies of this edition, published by David R. Godine in association with the Book Club of California. Palatino: The Natural History of a Typeface was first issued by the Book ...

Palatino Palatino is a large font family that began as an old style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf in 1948 (okay, 2 years early) by the Linotype foundry. Optima Optima ...

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 ...

- Optima, a revolutionary font that melded the thick and thin strokes of a traditional typeface within a sans serif design. Its capital letters are used for the names inscribed on the Maya ...

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.