Linotype Zapfino™ Extra Pro

Four alphabets for interchangeable use with many additional characters, newly designed small caps, 100 ornaments, and hyper-flourishes

Linotype´s Zapfino™ Extra is an expansion of the first Zapfino type family of 1998. The basic roman alphabet with 3 additional script variations is now complemented with small caps, mathematical symbols, additional ligatures, fractional numbers and with hyper-flourishes. Theses are some extremely big swashes running over two or three text lines.

From the beginning, it was intended that Zapfino™ would use all the possibilities that digital technology offers to alphabet design today. The result is a script typeface expressing all the freedom of brilliant calligraphy, now made accessible by the advanced capabilities of the new media.

Zapfino™ Extra is a flexible typeface with a number of alternate character sets. There is a main alphabet containing regular capitals and three supplementary alternate fonts with swash capitals, lower-case variants, ligatures and big flourishes called hyper-flourishes. Additional alternate forms – the ampersand for example – are also included, together with a collection of a hundred ornament designs.

A first attempt in 1948 to develop an authentically calligraphic script ended in compromise. The many technical restrictions of casting hot-metal types had to be followed. There were limitations in the kerning, restrictions in the slant of the letters, and no overlapping could be done. Now, the versatility that is possible with digital interpretation of letterforms allows the design of Zapfino Extra™ to take advantage of all the new technical opportunities that never before were available to a designer of alphabets. Zapfino™ Extra was produced in collaboration with Linotype´s Type Director Akira Kobayashi.

Zapfino™ Extra is a script typeface that opens up absolutely new kinds of typographic possibilities through the inter-mixing of different alphabet designs and allows unusual combinations for unique creative solutions.


For Linotype Zapfino™ Extra we offer two delivery methods:
– Order Linotype Zapfino™ Extra as Value Pack for instant download.
Or
– Order Linotype Zapfino™ Extra on CD and get it with physical shipping.