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Can a typeface reflect a culture

... a Japanese named Akira Kobayashi draws an extension of Herman Zapf’s typeface shortly after working on Adrian Frutiger’s ...

Forum topic - LindsayWillis - 22 Aug 2008 - 4:04pm - 41 comments - 0 attachments

A company named Techlink

... to Gary Larson’s works ;) Agh, why did Herman Zapf Agh, why did Herman Zapf need to be such a Gary Larson fan!! ...

Forum topic - paulsschwarz - 12 Nov 2007 - 2:08pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments

(x) Frame Magazine's serif font - Zapf International {Chris M}

... salad as we used to call it. I think the one you mean is Herman’s Zapf International. Chris Mitch can you tell me where abouts can you ...

Forum topic - Mike Tapping - 25 Mar 2006 - 3:16pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments

Your Favorite Numbers

... yet mentioned the gorgeous figures that accompany: Herman Zapf’s Aldus and Palatino Friedrich Poppl’s Pontifex ...

Forum topic - anythinganymore - 26 Dec 2007 - 1:52pm - 38 comments - 0 attachments

20 most important type designers of all time

... H. Griffith - Evert Bloemsma Living: - Herman Zapf - Edward Benguiat - Gerrit Noordzij - Adrian Frutiger ...

Forum topic - Brown Fox - 8 Jan 2007 - 11:25am - 46 comments - 0 attachments

Happy 7th Birthday Mac OS X

... of the best fonts available today, including Baskerville, Herman [sic] Zapf’s Zapfino, Futura, and Optima.” Maybe Zapf only references ...

Forum topic - sii - 25 Mar 2008 - 4:11pm - 8 comments - 0 attachments

Can't Identify Two Fonts: Please Help Me!

... The Scarlet Letter type is The Scarlet Letter type is Herman Zapf’s Palatino. (Book Antiqua is just a renamed version of the same ...

Forum topic - commodity - 9 Feb 2008 - 7:39pm - 7 comments - 2 attachments

Formatting a book with sans serif! (Suggestions for serif fonts without many serifs?)

... I read an old copy of “About Alphabets” by Herman Zapf, set in Optima. It’s beautiful and utterly readable. It’s ...

Forum topic - gertie - 14 Dec 2007 - 8:25am - 23 comments - 0 attachments

Is Optima not the ultimate screen font?

... get to use metal in some of my work.) I have a copy of Zapf’s Manuale Typographicum (the later, 1968 edition published with ... instead of the opposite which was the intention. Sorry Herman, I just can’t see using that one. ChrisL PS: Linda made me ...

Forum topic - tvz052 - 14 Jan 2007 - 2:56pm - 36 comments - 0 attachments

Chapter 28 - Optima....

... the end of the chapter was very sad where they cite H. Zapf’s response to seeing Dwiggins’ attempt at an idea of a ... I have lying somewhere around, but my guts tell me that Herman Z was pulling air raid duties in the Hitler Jugend at the time Berthold ...

Forum topic - Will Miller - 2 Sep 2005 - 10:13am - 34 comments - 0 attachments