Tips and recommendations



Sometimes swash characters might touch each other or overlap in a centered composition. In this case, the line with the swash characters in it should be moved a little to the left or to the right side for optical centering correction.


Zapfino™ No. 1 used as all caps should always be well spaced. Words in small caps, on the contrary, should always be spaced just a little.


Jubilee figures, e.g. for diplomas or certificates, can be connected with ornaments as demonstrated in this example. In addition, they can be printed in a large size or printed in red or another color.


Raised inititals taken from Zapfino™ can be used with a variety of other typefaces, as here in an example together with Optima™ roman. They should never be used with any other italic alphabets, because the Zapfino™ letters have an extreme slant of 15°.


Zapfino™ Extra has upstrokes on the following letters:


They should be used at the beginning of a word or to fill a gap between two letters.


Digitally technology allows effective combinations of letterforms with ornaments. Play with various connections to find the best solution for ending a paragraph.

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