Zapfino® – Perfect calligraphy on your computer
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Zapfino Extra Pro/Zapfino Extra Forte Pro: the [...]
Perfect calligraphy on your PC
Traditional and modern type creativity in one. The new Linotype Zapfino is artistically and technically a masterpiece from the master himself, Hermann Zapf. Linotype Zapfino is a complex font that can be used on the computer for creating calligraphic script layout designs. Its introduction into the market has had an auspicious start and the Type Directors Club of New York has just presented Linotype Zapfino with the prestigious TDC Type Design Award.
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But let's get back to types. In the last few years I have only added to my existing Palatino type, using Greek and Cyrillic characters in particular. That was for Microsoft. The type now has over 1200 figures per style, including all the foreign character sets.
Next came Zapfino Script, of which Linotype GmbH produced a poster on my birthday in 1998.
The story of Zapfino® goes back to 1993. I had just completed an extensive project with Donald Knuth and David Siegel at Stanford [...]
Venture™
Venture Script reflects Hermann Zapfs handwriting. It was originally written with a Japanese feltpen. And like with Zapfs typeface Noris Script™ he wanted to preserve the rough outline of the handwritten form in the final drawings. Venture Script was made also for the Linofilm photocomposing system and released in 1969.
ITC Zapf Book®
Zapf Book font is a blend of the characteristics of Walbaum, Melior™ and the contrasting weights of Bodoni. It is a typical Zapf font, distinction [...]
About the Fonts
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Today's digital font technology allowed the world-renowned typeface designer/calligrapher Hermann Zapf to finally realize a vision he first had more than fifty years ago: creating a typeface that could capture the freedom and liveliness of beautiful handwriting. The basic Zapfino™ font family, released in 1998, consists of four alphabets with many additional stylistic alternates that can be freely mixed together to emulate the variations in handwritten text.
In 2003, Herman Zapf completely reworked the Zapfino design, creating Zapfino™ Extra, a large expansion of the Zapfino family designed in close collaboration with Akira Kobayashi. This incomparable typeface family, also available in OpenType format, may be found here. Zapfino™ Extra features a cornucopia of new characters, including exuberant hyper-flourishes, elegant small caps, dozens of ornaments, more alternates and ligatures, index characters, and a very useful bold version-named Zapfino™ Forte.
Use Zapfino to produce unusual and graceful advertisements, packaging, and invitations. Zapfino is so joyously abundant that it's tempting to over-indulge, so be sure to check out the tips for working well with the possibilities!
Zapfino is a trademark of Linotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
Quality features
The Platinum Collection is the exclusive series of optimized classic typefaces from the Linotype Library.
XSF-Fonts are OpenType or TrueType fonts with an excellent appearance on screen at small sizes or low resolutions – especially engineered and optimized for exceptionally readable typefaces on computer screens using Microsoft® Windows operating systems.
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